In the Part 1 the layouts of:
1. System.Object
2. T[] array
3. string
This article also reveals how to access those types in unsafe or unmanaged environment. How we can change the object type or get array/string length pointer to change it later.
Tag: pointers
The cost of Unity’s forgiveness
Short overview of the costs you are paying by using extremely safe single-threaded Unity API (which is basically every call to the engine, including properties like Transform.localPosition) and how to avoid paying them.
Spoiler: these costs are huge.
How to get a pointer to managed object in C#
Not really quick overview of methods for taking a pointer of managed C# object.
With a great forbidden solution inside.
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