The `InitialImplementation.GateAttendance` record demonstrates the traditional approach to operator overloading in C#. Notice how both the increment operator (`++`) and addition operator (`+`) create entirely new instances of `GateAttendance` using the `with` expression. Each time you write `gate++` or `gate += partySize`, the operators allocate a new record instance with the updated `Count` value, then return that new instance. While this approach maintains immutability and thread safety, it comes at the cost of frequent memory allocations. In scenarios with many operations—like our concert simulation with hundreds of attendance updates—these allocations accumulate quickly, potentially impacting performance and increasing garbage collection pressure.
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