So in my previous post I got a comment from Brian.

The declare and initialization syntax used above is generally frowned upon. Rather, you should split the two into separate pieces. Either of the following will give you a 0-sized array while being natural:

‘Full form

Dim array1() As Integer = New Integer() {}

‘Shortcut

Dim array1() As Integer = {}

I don’t think that looks any better, but tastes differ.

It’s just syntactic sugar anyway.

Here is the code.

Module Module1

    Sub Main()
        Dim array1() As Integer
        Dim array2(-1) As Integer
        Dim array3(0) As Integer
        Dim array4(1) As Integer
        Dim array5() As Integer = {}
        Dim array6() = New Integer() {}

        ReDim array1(-1)

        Console.WriteLine(array1.Count)
        Console.WriteLine(array2.Count)
        Console.WriteLine(array3.Count)
        Console.WriteLine(array4.Count)
        Console.WriteLine(array5.Count)
        Console.WriteLine(array6.Count)

        Console.ReadLine()
    End Sub

End Module

And here is the resulting IL. Which I decompiled with justdecompile from telerik.

.method public static 
    void Main () cil managed 
{
    .custom instance void [mscorlib]System.STAThreadAttribute::.ctor() = (
        01 00 00 00
    )
    .entrypoint
    .locals init (
        [0] int32[] array1,
        [1] int32[] array2,
        [2] int32[] array3,
        [3] int32[] array4,
        [4] int32[] array5,
        [5] int32[] array6
    )

    IL_0000: nop
    IL_0001: ldc.i4.0
    IL_0002: newarr [mscorlib]System.Int32
    IL_0007: stloc.1
    IL_0008: ldc.i4.1
    IL_0009: newarr [mscorlib]System.Int32
    IL_000e: stloc.2
    IL_000f: ldc.i4.2
    IL_0010: newarr [mscorlib]System.Int32
    IL_0015: stloc.3
    IL_0016: ldc.i4.0
    IL_0017: newarr [mscorlib]System.Int32
    IL_001c: stloc.s array5
    IL_001e: ldc.i4.0
    IL_001f: newarr [mscorlib]System.Int32
    IL_0024: stloc.s array6
    IL_0026: ldc.i4.0
    IL_0027: newarr [mscorlib]System.Int32
    IL_002c: stloc.0
    IL_002d: ldloc.0
    IL_002e: call int32 [System.Core]System.Linq.Enumerable::Count<int32>(class [mscorlib]System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1<int32>)
    IL_0033: call void [mscorlib]System.Console::WriteLine(int32)
    IL_0038: nop
    IL_0039: ldloc.1
    IL_003a: call int32 [System.Core]System.Linq.Enumerable::Count<int32>(class [mscorlib]System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1<int32>)
    IL_003f: call void [mscorlib]System.Console::WriteLine(int32)
    IL_0044: nop
    IL_0045: ldloc.2
    IL_0046: call int32 [System.Core]System.Linq.Enumerable::Count<int32>(class [mscorlib]System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1<int32>)
    IL_004b: call void [mscorlib]System.Console::WriteLine(int32)
    IL_0050: nop
    IL_0051: ldloc.3
    IL_0052: call int32 [System.Core]System.Linq.Enumerable::Count<int32>(class [mscorlib]System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1<int32>)
    IL_0057: call void [mscorlib]System.Console::WriteLine(int32)
    IL_005c: nop
    IL_005d: ldloc.s array5
    IL_005f: call int32 [System.Core]System.Linq.Enumerable::Count<int32>(class [mscorlib]System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1<int32>)
    IL_0064: call void [mscorlib]System.Console::WriteLine(int32)
    IL_0069: nop
    IL_006a: ldloc.s array6
    IL_006c: call int32 [System.Core]System.Linq.Enumerable::Count<int32>(class [mscorlib]System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1<int32>)
    IL_0071: call void [mscorlib]System.Console::WriteLine(int32)
    IL_0076: nop
    IL_0077: call string [mscorlib]System.Console::ReadLine()
    IL_007c: pop
    IL_007d: nop
    IL_007e: ret
}

AS you can see array2, array5 and array6 all have ldc.i4.0.

So I conclude that they are all kind of similar.