True Unsafe Code Performance

Question

I understand unsafe code is more appropriate to access things like the Windows API and do unsafe type castings than to write more performant code, but I would like to ask yo

Answer 1

Well, I would suggest to read this blog-post: MSDN blogs: Array Bounds Check Elimination in the CLR

This clarifies how bounds-checks are done in C#. Moreover, Thomas Bratts tests seem to me useless (looking at the code) since the JIT removes in his 'save' loops the bound-checks anyway.