Are there any benefits to using a C# method group if available?

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Well, let’s take a look and see what happens.

static void MethodGroup()
{
    new List<string>().ForEach(Console.WriteLine);
}

static void LambdaExpression()
{
    new List<string>().ForEach(x => Console.WriteLine(x));
}

This gets compiled into the following IL.

.method private hidebysig static void MethodGroup() cil managed
{
    .maxstack 8
    L_0000: newobj instance void [mscorlib]System.Collections.Generic.List`1<string>::.ctor()
    L_0005: ldnull 
    L_0006: ldftn void [mscorlib]System.Console::WriteLine(string)
    L_000c: newobj instance void [mscorlib]System.Action`1<string>::.ctor(object, native int)
    L_0011: call instance void [mscorlib]System.Collections.Generic.List`1<string>::ForEach(class [mscorlib]System.Action`1<!0>)
    L_0016: ret 
}

.method private hidebysig static void LambdaExpression() cil managed
{
    .maxstack 8
    L_0000: newobj instance void [mscorlib]System.Collections.Generic.List`1<string>::.ctor()
    L_0005: ldsfld class [mscorlib]System.Action`1<string> Sandbox.Program::CS$<>9__CachedAnonymousMethodDelegate1
    L_000a: brtrue.s L_001d
    L_000c: ldnull 
    L_000d: ldftn void Sandbox.Program::<LambdaExpression>b__0(string)
    L_0013: newobj instance void [mscorlib]System.Action`1<string>::.ctor(object, native int)
    L_0018: stsfld class [mscorlib]System.Action`1<string> Sandbox.Program::CS$<>9__CachedAnonymousMethodDelegate1
    L_001d: ldsfld class [mscorlib]System.Action`1<string> Sandbox.Program::CS$<>9__CachedAnonymousMethodDelegate1
    L_0022: call instance void [mscorlib]System.Collections.Generic.List`1<string>::ForEach(class [mscorlib]System.Action`1<!0>)
    L_0027: ret 
}

Notice how the method group approach creates an Action<T> delegate for one time use and the lambda expression approach creates a hidden anonymous delegate field and does an inline initialization of it if necessary. Notice brtrue instruction at IL_000a.

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