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

What does autoboxing/unboxing have to do with generics? This is just a type-safety issue. With a non-generic collection, you are required to explicitly cast back to an object's actual type. With generics, you can skip this step. I don't think there is a performance difference one way or the other.