Cached property vs Lazy

Question

In .NET 4 the following snippet with a cached property can also be written using the System.Lazy class. I measured the performance of both approaches and it\'s pret

Answer 1

The Lazy is simpler—it clearly expresses the intent of the code.
It's also thread safe.

Note that if you're actually using this on multiple threads, you need to make it [ThreadStatic]; GDI+ objects cannot be shared across threads.