Better-Performance-CSharp

Link to course: https://www.mdfarragher.com/training/introduction-to-csharp-performance/

Code snippets testing performance of .Net features using Benchmark.dotnet.core

Fundamentals of the .NET Framework

• The Stack and the Heap
• Value Types
• Reference Types
• Boxing and unboxing
• Immutable Strings

Basic Optimizations: the low-hanging fruit

• How to prevent boxing and unboxing
• Fast string concatenation
• Fast collections
• Fast arrays
• Throwing and catching exceptions
• For versus Foreach

Intermediate Optimizations

• Fast Garbage Collection
• Fast delegates
• Fast class factories

A crash course in Intermediate Language

• Introduction to CIL sintax and instructions
• Local variable locations
• The evaluation stack

Advanced Optimizations

• Arrays on the stack
• Pointers
• Modifying String Constants