May 2012 | .NET Parallel Programming

Performance consideration for Async/Await and MarshalByRefObject

Stephen Toub - MSFT May 31, 2012 May 31, 2012 05/31/12

In the previous "What's New for Parallelism in Visual Studio 2012 RC" blog post, I mentioned briefly that for the .NET 4.5 Release Candidate, StreamReader.ReadLineAsync experienced a significant performance improvement over Beta. There's an intriguing story behind that, one I thought I'd share here.It has to do with some interesting...

What’s New for Parallelism in Visual Studio 2012 RC

Stephen Toub - MSFT May 31, 2012 May 31, 2012 05/31/12

In September, I blogged about what was new for parallelism and asynchrony in the Visual Studio 2012 Developer Preview, and in February I followed that up with a post on what was new in the Beta. Now that Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate is out, I want to share a few thoughts on what’s new in the Release Candidate.Most new ...

ConcurrentQueue holding on to a few dequeued elements

Stephen Toub - MSFT May 8, 2012 May 8, 2012 05/8/12

Since .NET 4’s release, I’ve received several questions about a peculiar behavior of ConcurrentQueue<T> having to do with memory management.With Queue<T>, List<T>, and other such data structures in the .NET Framework, when you remove an element from the collection, the collection internally wipes out its reference...

.NET Parallel Programming

May 2012 | .NET Parallel Programming

Performance consideration for Async/Await and MarshalByRefObject

What’s New for Parallelism in Visual Studio 2012 RC

ConcurrentQueue holding on to a few dequeued elements

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