Generics vs. Array Lists

Question

The system I work on here was written before .net 2.0 and didn\'t have the benefit of generics. It was eventually updated to 2.0, but none of the code was refactored due to

Answer 1

The only way to know for sure is to profile your code using a tool like dotTrace.

http://www.jetbrains.com/profiler/

It's possible that the boxing/unboxing is trivial in your particular application and wouldn't be worth refactoring. Going forward, you should still consider using generics due to the compile-time type safety.