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Changing Your Garbage Collector Settings on the Fly (.NET Memory Management: Part 5)

Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 4:39 PM by RickM
It has come to my attention via a recent DZone article that .NET 3.5 and 2.0 SP1 jointly included a new feature which lets you manipulate the way your garbage collector acts programmatically. This can be done through changing the value of a new property Read More...
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A Safe and Asynchronous One to Many Stream Copy Through IL and Inheritance

Posted Thursday, June 26, 2008 6:32 PM by RickM
Because .NET Streams have state, they are difficult to use in multithreaded environments. In this post I discuss ways to manage or work around problems arising from the statefulness of .NET Streams. I explain how this is possible both through traditional Read More...
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Attachment(s): MemoryStream Test.zip

Choosing the Right Garbage Collector Settings for Your Application (.NET Memory Management: Part 4)

Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:11 PM by RickM
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...
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Increasing the Size of your Stack (.NET Memory Management: Part 3)

Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 1:45 PM by RickM
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...
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Attachment(s): Kernel32CreateThread.zip