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Refactoring a Large Project (in terms of lines of code) I got introduced to ReSharper and the theme using var instead of a type that will only affect at compile time. Does this significantly affect compile time? I would like to define a code style for it in my company, but I'm not sure if I like the idea of ​​"overusing" the var keyword ...

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In my experience, any difference is negligible for non-observability. I cannot find any difference, even in large projects. Whatever difference var makes is statistically insignificant, and is lost in the rest of the compilation.



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This has no effect, since var is resolved at compile time, since C # is a static language.

At compile time, the compiler replaces the actual type where var is in the code. So little impact on the compiler of compiling the code

Example:



var s = "hi";

is replaced by

string s = "hi";
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