Why are lambda expressions not “interned”?

You're mistaken to call it a literal, IMO. It's just an expression which is convertible to a delegate type.

Yes. Because spending time on a tricky optimization that benefits almost no one takes time away from designing, implementing, testing and maintaining features that do benefit people.

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