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

Lazy has some syncronization overhead to provide thread-safety whereas cached property is initiliazed by CLR way before any other code and you do not need to pay synronization cost

From a testability point of view, Lazy is well tested and proven artifact.

However, it has a very slight overhead, in my opinion, over other option