All About Span: Exploring a New .NET Mainstay

[yread]

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/mt814808?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

[viggity]

I think "mainstay" is a bit of a reach.

I love C# and I frequently have a need for high perf. However, unless you need that high perf, don't use Span<T>. Make your code more readable instead.

[Shoothe → viggity]

> However, unless you need that high perf, don't use Span<T>. Make your code more readable instead.

Is there anything in Span that inhibits readability?

[benaadams → viggity]

Span<T> is safer than ArraySegement<T> as it only allows access to a window of array, rather than full array with a "request" to only look at offset->length

Span<T> is better than Array as it also comes with ReaOnlySpan<T> for a view with readonly array elements; whereas Array is always read/write.