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I agree that the deserialization is less efficient into an array type versus a list and serialization is at least equal. This is 99% of how the data I'm querying from databases is consumed; By another app communicating over HTTP, using XML or JSON. So that point definitely resonates with me. The array covariance thing, I've seen some other answers in this thread that mention it as an argument against arrays and I will say that is absolutely something I would never code, so I consider it more academic or contrived than real-world.

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2025-06-25 21:47:23 +00:00
Commented Jun 25 at 21:47

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