General Performance Tip: Retrieving the Nullable Value from a Reference Type

If your method returns a reference type or a null, it can be implemented in the following ways:

Example 1

var result = person != null ? person : null;
return result;

Example 2

var result =person ?? null;
return result;

Benchmark Results

To assess performance, the null coalesce approach (Example 2) is found to be 1.12 times more efficient compared to the ternary conditional expression (Example 1).

This is how I have it setup in my EditorConfig:
dotnet_diagnostic.IDE0029.severity = suggestion

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