General Performance Tip: Cloning Various Types

When the need arises to clone an object, Microsoft recommends the approach of serializing it to JSON and subsequently deserializing the JSON to create a new object. I was intrigued to explore how performance varies when dealing with reference types, value types, and record types.

Benchmark Results

Using the JsonSerializer for cloning, it was observed that cloning record types is 1.12 times faster than cloning a value type and 1.23 times more performant than cloning reference types. These findings are provided for your reference.

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