Xor combination of two Guids.

Xor.cs

public static Guid Xor(Guid a, Guid b)
{
    var ad = new DecomposedGuid(a);
    var bd = new DecomposedGuid(b);

    ad.Hi ^= bd.Hi;
    ad.Lo ^= bd.Lo;

    return ad.Value;
}

[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Explicit)]
private struct DecomposedGuid
{
    [FieldOffset(00)] public Guid Value;
    [FieldOffset(00)] public long Hi;
    [FieldOffset(08)] public long Lo;
    public DecomposedGuid(Guid value) : this() => Value = value;
}

Hmm, the disassembly for XorPointer and XorSafe pretty much looks the same, difference might be alignment problem?

.NET Core 2.1.5 (CoreCLR 4.6.26919.02, CoreFX 4.6.26919.02), 64bit RyuJIT

; ConsoleApp23.GuidXorBenchmark.XorPointer()
       mov     rcx,7FFA1DB83518h
       mov     edx,2
       call    coreclr!MetaDataGetDispenser+0x37fa0
       mov     rax,27AED0D7220h
       mov     rax,qword ptr [rax]
       add     rax,8
       vmovdqu xmm0,xmmword ptr [rax]
       vmovdqu xmmword ptr [rsp+38h],xmm0
       mov     rax,27AED0D7228h
       mov     rax,qword ptr [rax]
       add     rax,8
       vmovdqu xmm0,xmmword ptr [rax]
       vmovdqu xmmword ptr [rsp+28h],xmm0
       lea     rax,[rsp+38h]
       lea     rdx,[rsp+28h]
       mov     rcx,qword ptr [rdx]
       xor     qword ptr [rax],rcx
       lea     rcx,[rax+8]
       mov     rdx,qword ptr [rdx+8]
       xor     qword ptr [rcx],rdx
       vmovdqu xmm0,xmmword ptr [rax]
       vmovdqu xmmword ptr [rsi],xmm0
       mov     rax,rsi
; Total bytes of code 118

.NET Core 2.1.5 (CoreCLR 4.6.26919.02, CoreFX 4.6.26919.02), 64bit RyuJIT

; ConsoleApp23.GuidXorBenchmark.XorUnsafe()
       mov     rcx,7FFA1DB93518h
       mov     edx,2
       call    coreclr!MetaDataGetDispenser+0x37fa0
       mov     rcx,28210007220h
       mov     rcx,qword ptr [rcx]
       add     rcx,8
       vmovdqu xmm0,xmmword ptr [rcx]
       vmovdqu xmmword ptr [rsp+40h],xmm0
       mov     rcx,28210007228h
       mov     rcx,qword ptr [rcx]
       add     rcx,8
       vmovdqu xmm0,xmmword ptr [rcx]
       vmovdqu xmmword ptr [rsp+30h],xmm0
       lea     rcx,[rsp+40h]
       mov     rdx,qword ptr [rsp+40h]
       xor     rdx,qword ptr [rsp+30h]
       mov     qword ptr [rcx],rdx
       lea     rcx,[rsp+40h]
       mov     edx,1
       call    System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe.Add[[System.UInt64, System.Private.CoreLib]](UInt64 ByRef, Int32)
       mov     rdi,rax
       lea     rcx,[rsp+40h]
       mov     edx,1
       call    System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe.Add[[System.UInt64, System.Private.CoreLib]](UInt64 ByRef, Int32)
       mov     rbx,qword ptr [rax]
       lea     rcx,[rsp+30h]
       mov     edx,1
       call    System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe.Add[[System.UInt64, System.Private.CoreLib]](UInt64 ByRef, Int32)
       xor     rbx,qword ptr [rax]
       mov     qword ptr [rdi],rbx
       vmovdqu xmm0,xmmword ptr [rsp+40h]
       vmovdqu xmmword ptr [rsi],xmm0
       mov     rax,rsi
; Total bytes of code 168

; System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe.Add[[System.UInt64, System.Private.CoreLib]](UInt64 ByRef, Int32)
       movsxd  rax,edx
       lea     rax,[rcx+rax*8]
; Total bytes of code 7

No ILOffsetMap found
System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe.As(!!0 ByRef)

.NET Core 2.1.5 (CoreCLR 4.6.26919.02, CoreFX 4.6.26919.02), 64bit RyuJIT

; ConsoleApp23.GuidXorBenchmark.XorSafe()
       lea     rcx,[rsp+38h]
       vxorps  xmm0,xmm0,xmm0
       vmovdqu xmmword ptr [rcx],xmm0
       mov     rcx,7FFA1DB83518h
       mov     edx,2
       call    coreclr!MetaDataGetDispenser+0x37fa0
       mov     rax,2CB90007220h
       mov     rax,qword ptr [rax]
       add     rax,8
       vmovdqu xmm0,xmmword ptr [rax]
       vmovdqu xmmword ptr [rsp+38h],xmm0
       mov     rax,2CB90007228h
       mov     rax,qword ptr [rax]
       add     rax,8
       vmovdqu xmm0,xmmword ptr [rax]
       vmovdqu xmmword ptr [rsp+28h],xmm0
       lea     rax,[rsp+38h]
       mov     rdx,qword ptr [rsp+28h]
       xor     qword ptr [rax],rdx
       lea     rax,[rsp+40h]
       mov     rdx,qword ptr [rsp+30h]
       xor     qword ptr [rax],rdx
       vmovdqu xmm0,xmmword ptr [rsp+38h]
       vmovdqu xmmword ptr [rsi],xmm0
       mov     rax,rsi
; Total bytes of code 134

Ok, the differences appear to be system related, something else is running on my system, after reboot it looks like:

BenchmarkDotNet=v0.11.2, OS=Windows 10.0.17134.376 (1803/April2018Update/Redstone4)
Intel Xeon CPU E5-1620 0 3.60GHz, 1 CPU, 8 logical and 4 physical cores
.NET Core SDK=2.2.100-preview3-009430
  [Host]     : .NET Core 2.1.5 (CoreCLR 4.6.26919.02, CoreFX 4.6.26919.02), 64bit RyuJIT
  DefaultJob : .NET Core 2.1.5 (CoreCLR 4.6.26919.02, CoreFX 4.6.26919.02), 64bit RyuJIT

Method	Mean	Error	StdDev
XorPointer	10.47 ns	0.3285 ns	0.3226 ns
XorUnsafe	14.37 ns	0.1059 ns	0.0939 ns
XorSafe	11.21 ns	0.1026 ns	0.0801 ns

Yeah, that's what I expected 😄👍