How does C# generics affect collections with primitives

Question

As I understand it, C#/.Net generics support some degree of reification. So, if I have the following code:

List list = new List();
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Answer 1

As others have noted, the jitter generates new code for every construction involving a new value type. An interesting point not yet mentioned so far is that the jitter will generate code once for a reference type construction and re-use that for every reference type. The code for List