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 a large dataset. Alternatively, in some threading situations one megabyte per thread/fiber can ...

Articles in This Series Part 1 – Basic Housekeeping Part 2 – Improving Performance Through Stack Allocation Part 3 – Increasing the Size of your Stack Part 4 – Choosing the Right Garbage Collector Settings Introduction In C#, when you create managed objects or arrays of value types, they are created on the Heap and you are passed ...

There are a great number of different ways to count the number of processors available to the .NET developer. In this post I will go over some of the more common methods and their pros and cons.   The Envirionment.ProcessorCount Way Code: Environment.ProcessorCount; Supported Platforms: Windows 98 Or Greater, .NET 2.0 or ...

One of the most often cited reasons to not use .NET is that it is initially compiled to an intermediary language (MSIL) and has to be recompiled every time you run it. In many high performance environments this wasted time is simply unacceptable. To combat this Microsoft released a tool with .NET 1.1 called NGen (Native Image Generator) which ...

Howard Dierking over at MSDN has a really interesting Blog post entitled ''Lambda, Lambda, Lambda!'' in which he described the evolution of the lambda function in C#. It seems fairly simple on the surface: 1.0 Introduced Delegates, 2.0 Introduced Anonymous Methods, and 3.0 Introduced Lambda Expressions. I had been wondering what made Lambda ...