Mike Woodring

@disciple_dev @pluralsight Ah - that's just an artifact of how the JIT compiler handles things during instance allocation. At this point in the demo, field Z is an integer (a value type), so it's zero-filled by default. Later, when it's redefined to string (a reference type), it would default to null.

@mcwoodring @pluralsight I appreciate it. I think I meant why is Z set to zero since we didn’t initialize it. But I guess it has to have a non-null value.

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@disciple_dev @pluralsight [9/9] It's the JIT compilation architecture (the topic of the next module) that preserves type safety while still achieving performance traditionally associated only with natively compiled languages.

@disciple_dev @pluralsight [8/9] But if the structure is modified in a way that violates the type expectations of callers (e.g.: next demo changing field types from int to string), the JIT compiler will raise an exception & protect the client from insidious memory corruption issues or other nasty bugs.

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