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Sep 13, 2023
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Performance Improvements in .NET 8

.NET 7 was super fast, .NET 8 is faster. Take an in-depth tour through over 500 pull requests that make that a reality.

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Mar 16, 2023
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How Async/Await Really Works in C#

Async/await was added to the C# language over a decade ago and has transformed how we write scalable code for .NET. But how does it really work? In this post, we take a deep dive into its internals.

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Aug 31, 2022
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Performance Improvements in .NET 7

.NET 7 is fast. Really fast. In this post, we'll deep-dive into literally hundreds of performance improvements that contributed to that reality.

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May 12, 2022
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Regular Expression Improvements in .NET 7

System.Text.RegularExpressions has improved significantly in .NET 7. In this post, we'll deep-dive into many of its exciting improvements.

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Aug 10, 2021
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String Interpolation in C# 10 and .NET 6

Text processing is at the heart of huge numbers of apps and services, and in .NET, that means lots and lots of . creation is so fundamental that a myriad of ways of creating them have existed since .NET Framework 1.0 was released, and more have joined the fray since. Whether via 's constructors, or , or overrides, or helper methods on like or ...

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Jul 13, 2020
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Performance Improvements in .NET 5

Explore many performance improvements, big and small, that have gone into the .NET 5 runtime and core libraries to make apps and services leaner and faster.

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Apr 2, 2020
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Regex Performance Improvements in .NET 5

For .NET 5, we’ve invested in some significant improvements to the Regex engine. On many of the expressions we’ve tried, these changes routinely result in throughput improvements of 3-6x, and in some cases, much more. In this post, I’ll walk through some of the myriad of changes that have gone into System.Text.RegularExpressions in .NET 5.

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