I'm in a discussion with a co-worker concerning the use of structs. I have a couple of structs that contain several static properties that are used throughout our website. The value of those properties are all strings. They're not very long, the longest value has 29 characters.
His argument: "I am saying there is no performance gain because there are strings inside of them. For value types yes you gain memory/gc benefits. With strings they are ref types so allocate to the heap and won't give any benefit."
My argument: "...I'm simply treating the string values as value types by using the struct, therefore saving time and gaining performance by not having to instantiate it every time."
Here is an example of one of the structs so that you can see how I'm using them:
public struct Hero
{
public static string Image = "Hero Image";
public static string Eyebrow = "Hero Eyebrow";
public static string Heading = "Hero Heading";
public static string Subheading = "Hero Subheading";
public static string YoutubeLink = "Youtube Hero Link";
public static string PardotForm = "Pardot Form Hero Link";
public static string PardotDirect = "Pardot Direct Hero Link";
public static string DirectLink = "Direct Hero Link";
public static string FacebookLink = "Hero Facebook Link";
public static string TwitterLink = "Hero Twitter Link";
public static string LinkedInLink = "Hero LinkedIn Link";
public static string LinkClassNames = "Class Names";
}
Let me know if I'm completely wrong and should just use classes or if there is a better way of using the structs for my values (i.e: readonly instead of static, etc...).
