Performance

Try the new System.Text.Json source generator

Layomi Akinrinade July 22, 2021 Jul 22, 2021 07/22/21

Learn about the new System.Text.Json source generator

Migration of Bing’s Workflow Engine to .NET 5

Ben Watson June 15, 2021 Jun 15, 2021 06/15/21

Bing runs one of the world’s largest, most complex, highly performant, and reliable .NET applications. This posts discusses the journey and the work required to upgrade to .NET 5. This migration has been an unqualified success for our team. The overall picture is clear that .NET 5 is phenomenally superior.

Loop alignment in .NET 6

Kunal Pathak March 25, 2021 Mar 25, 2021 03/25/21

Loop alignment improvements in .NET 6

What’s next for System.Text.Json?

Layomi Akinrinade December 16, 2020 Dec 16, 2020 12/16/20

What's next for System.Text.Json?

The updated GetGCMemoryInfo API in .NET 5.0 and how it can help you

maoni November 27, 2020 Nov 27, 2020 11/27/20

A bit of historyIn .NET 3.0 we introduced a GC.GetGCMemoryInfo API for library code to get memory load related things (this was used in ArrayPool for example) so it exposed things library folks wanted at the time. In 5.0 I got requests from folks to monitor more things about the GC. Instead of adding a bit of info each time someone asks, I ...

ARM64 Performance in .NET 5

Kunal Pathak September 2, 2020 Sep 2, 2020 09/2/20

ARM64 performance work in .NET 5

Automatically find latent bugs in your code with .NET 5

Jonathon Marolf August 27, 2020 Aug 27, 2020 08/27/20

Introduction to the new Analysis Level feature shipping in .NET 5 Preview 8

Performance Improvements in .NET 5

Stephen Toub - MSFT July 13, 2020 Jul 13, 2020 07/13/20

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.

Async ValueTask Pooling in .NET 5

Stephen Toub - MSFT March 16, 2020 Mar 16, 2020 03/16/20

The async/await feature in C# has revolutionized how developers targeting .NET write asynchronous code. Sprinkle some async and await around, change some return types to be tasks, and badda bing badda boom, you've got an asynchronous implementation. In theory. In practice, obviously I've exaggerated the ease with which a codebase can be made ...

ConfigureAwait FAQ

Stephen Toub - MSFT December 11, 2019 Dec 11, 2019 12/11/19

.NET added async/await to the languages and libraries over seven years ago. In that time, it's caught on like wildfire, not only across the .NET ecosystem, but also being replicated in a myriad of other languages and frameworks. It's also seen a ton of improvements in .NET, in terms of additional language constructs that utilize asynchrony, ...

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