The decision as to whether to make an object a class or a struct is very important, and not just from the performance perspective. Quite often what we really want is a “value plus” – to be able to provide a wrapper around a single value (such as an int) that would do one of the following:
Carry additional information (data or metadata).
Provide additional behaviors.
Provide additional levels of indirection.
Some fairly obvious examples of value object types include
Money: Carries information about monetary ...
