Will an empty delegate eat up memory?

Question

public sealed class FtpManager
{
    public event EventHandler LoggingIn = delegate { };
    private void OnLoggingIn(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        var h         


        

Answer 1

The alternative to doing this is checking LoggingIn for nullity every time you want to raise it. That's liable to be more memory intensive than calling an empty delegate.