performance of byte vs. int in .NET

Question

In pre-.NET world I always assumed that int is faster than byte since this is how processor works.

Now it\'s matter habit of using int even when bytes could work, fo

Answer 1

Same as any other platform. Why would .NET change this? The code still has to run on the same CPU, which has the same performance characteristics as always.

And that means you should still use int by default.