While not directly related to the question's environment, just for the curiosity, I did the same test on .NET Core 2.1, x64, release mode.
Here is the interesting result, confirming similar phonomena (other way around) happening over the dark side of the force. Code:
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Stopwatch watch = new Stopwatch();
Console.WriteLine("2 * (i * i)");
for (int a = 0; a < 10; a++)
{
int n = 0;
watch.Restart();
for (int i = 0; i < 1000000000; i++)
{
n += 2 * (i * i);
}
watch.Stop();
Console.WriteLine($"result:{n}, {watch.ElapsedMilliseconds} ms");
}
Console.WriteLine();
Console.WriteLine("2 * i * i");
for (int a = 0; a < 10; a++)
{
int n = 0;
watch.Restart();
for (int i = 0; i < 1000000000; i++)
{
n += 2 * i * i;
}
watch.Stop();
Console.WriteLine($"result:{n}, {watch.ElapsedMilliseconds}ms");
}
}
Result:
2 * (i * i)
2 * i * i