Do string literals get optimised by the compiler?

Question

Does the C# compiler or .NET CLR do any clever memory optimisation of string literals/constants? I could swear I\'d heard of the concept of \"string internalisation\" so th

Answer 1

Yes it does optimize string literals. One simple example where you can see that:

string s1="A";
string s2="A";
object.ReferenceEquals(s1,s2);  //true