.NET 8 includes significant improvements to the Hardware Intrinsics feature.

.NET 7 Preview 5 includes significant improvements to the Generic Math feature.

If you’ve ever wanted to use operators with generic types or thought that interfaces could be improved by supporting the ability to define static methods as part of their contract, then this blog post is for you. With .NET 6 we will be shipping a preview of the new generic math and static abstracts in interfaces features.

Several years ago, we decided that it was time to support SIMD code in .NET. We introduced the System.Numerics namespace with , , , , and related types. These types expose a general-purpose API for creating, accessing, and operating on them using hardware vector instructions (when available). They also provide a software fallback for when the ...

Starting back with the .NET Core 2.1 release, we were making iterative improvements to the floating-point parsing and formatting code in .NET Core. Now, in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 3, we are nearing completion of this work and would like to share more details about these changes and some of the differences you might see in your applications. The ...