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Start Using ValueTuple: Senior Developer’s POV

Class Overhead in .NET Development and solution

Is It Vritra - SDE I
4 min readJan 6, 2025

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In .NET development, achieving both efficiency and readability has always been in a major role. Classes have been a reliable choice for structuring data right? but they come with some trade-offs.

Enter ValueTuple, a newer, lightweight data structure that’s changing the way we code and this article explores the transition from traditional classes to ValueTuple, explaining why it’s a key tool for senior developers who want top-notch performance and maintainable code.

Traditional Classes and Their Overheads

Classes in .NET have long been the go-to for representing complex data structures. However, their usage comes with inherent costs:

  • Heap Allocation: Classes are reference types so it leads to frequent heap allocations and eventual garbage collection overhead jeezzz…
  • Boxing/Unboxing Issues: When dealing with value types stored in classes, implicit boxing can introduce performance penalties!!
  • Boilerplate Code: Classes often require verbose implementations, including constructors, Equals, GetHashCode, and `ToString` methods, just to handle simple scenarios (it sounds but…)

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Is It Vritra - SDE I
Is It Vritra - SDE I

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