Rick Minerich's Development Wonderland

After my last blog post, due to some of the responses, I decided to spend some time with Smalltalk. As a DotNET developer by trade, I wanted to see what kinds of options were available for use on the CLR. Unfortunately, out of the five different DotNET Read More...

Tuning the garbage collector to the specific context of the particular application can significantly improve the performance of both non-threaded and multi-threaded applications. In this post I discuss the gcConcurrent and gcServer settings which allow Read More...

In the previous article I discussed a few of the benefits of stack allocation as well as a couple of C# keywords which help you to leverage those benefits. However, the one megabyte default stack size is too small for stack allocation to be used with Read More...