I feel outraged -

[Don]

Justin Johansson wrote:
> - that the .sizeof a delegate is 8 bytes (on a 32-bit machine).
> 
> AFAIK, stack pushes are still more expensive than a pointer dereference in contemporary
> CPU architectures.
> 
> Justin

Not so.  On 286 and earlier, stack pushes were more expensive. They're 
the same on 386 and later (including Core2, K7,K8,K10), but you have a 
chance of a cache miss with a pointer deref. In my C++ experience I got 
a 25% speedup of my entire app by replacing heap pointers with stack 
delegates!