Why is TypedReference behind the scenes? It’s so fast and safe… almost magical!
Short answer: portability. While __arglist, __makeref, and __refvalue are language extensions and are undocumented in the C# Language Specification, the constructs used to implement them under the hood (vararg calling convention, TypedReference type, arglist, refanytype, mkanyref, and refanyval instructions) are perfectly documented in the CLI Specification (ECMA-335) in the Vararg library. Being defined in the … Read more