Generic or Non-Generic?

[André Nobre]

Hi all,
I´m creating a factory class and I don´t know if it´s better to create it
with Generics or not. The basic funcionality would be:
public static class DalcFactory<T>

public static T Instantiate()

{

if (typeof(T).Name.Equals("Example"))

return (T) Assembly.LoadFrom(...).CreateInstance(...);

}

Without generics, the class would contains inumerous static methods,
GetObject1, GetObject2, GetObject3, and others. With Generics, I would use
just one method, Instantiate, as above.

I want to know wich one is better, in performance.

Thanks!

André

[Göran Andersson]

If you use separate methods, the type will be identified at compile time
instead of at runtime, so you'll save a bit of work.

I think that the work to identify the type is relatively small compared
to the work of creating the object, though, so I'd suggest that you go
for the method that gives the nicest code.

André Nobre wrote:

Without generics, the class would contains inumerous static methods,
GetObject1, GetObject2, GetObject3, and others. With Generics, I would use
just one method, Instantiate, as above.

I want to know wich one is better, in performance.