Use of the Keyword Static

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Duplicate

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/731763/should-c-methods-that-can-be-static-be-static

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Other then the obvious downsides of inheritance and variable scope, if you have a method that is completely contained should you always declare it as static? Are there any downside to declaring methods as static? Especially in terms of garbage collection.

Answer 1

Here's a great post on the topic..

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/731763/should-c-methods-that-can-be-static-be-static

Answer 2

It's irrelevant to garbage collection.

If the method is non-virtual and doesn't use any instance variables, I'd make it static. That makes it clear that it isn't related to a particular instance.