The Objectified Intermediate Language is a framework I'm writing to help people generate code in three of the .NET's primary target languages. That is:
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I've been researching the .NET Common Intermediate Language (CIL) lately, and I noticed a few funny things in how C# exports array initializers.

If you use a primitive type, such as Int32, Int64, Byte, SByte, and so on, instead of creating a new array and initializing each element individually, it merely creates a new array and pushes a RuntimeFieldHandle of a static field stored privately.

Now to help illustrate, lets use an example, starting with a sample C# Array:

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