Understand .NET memory management internal workings, pitfalls, and techniques in order to effectively avoid a wide range of performance and scalability problems in your software. Despite automatic memory management in .NET, there are many advantages to be found in understanding how .NET memory works and how you can best write software that interacts with it efficiently and effectively. This book is your comprehensive guide to writing better software by understanding and working with memory management in .NET, from Framework up to .NET 8.
Thoroughly vetted by the .NET Team at Microsoft, this book contains valuable troubleshooting scenarios designed to help diagnose challenging memory problems. You will also benefit from a multitude of .NET memory management rules to live by that introduce methods for writing memory-aware code and the means for avoiding common, destructive pitfalls.
What You'll Learn
Understand the theoretical underpinnings of automatic memory management Take a deep dive into every aspect of .NET memory management, including detailed coverage of garbage collection (GC) implementation, that would otherwise take years of experience to acquire Get practical advice on how this knowledge can be applied in real-world software development Use practical knowledge of tools related to .NET memory management to diagnose various memory-related issues Explore various aspects of advanced memory management, including use of Span and Memory types
Who This Book Is For
.NET developers, solution architects, and performance engineers
1. Basic Concepts.- 2. Low-Level Memory Management.- 3. Memory
Measurements.- 4. .NET Fundamentals.-
5. Memory Partitioning.- 6. Memory
Allocation.- 7. Garbage Collection: Introduction.- 8. Garbage Collection:
Mark Phase.- 9. Garbage Collection: Plan Phase.- 10. Garbage Collection:
Sweep and Compact.-11. GC Flavors.- 12. Finalization.- 13. Miscellaneous
Topics.- 14. Advanced Techniques.- 15. Programmatical APIs.
Konrad Kokosa is an experienced software designer and developer with a specific interest in Microsoft technologies, while looking with curiosity at everything else. He has been programming for over a dozen years, solving performance problems and architectural puzzles in the .NET world, and designing and speeding up .NET applications. He is an independent consultant, blogger, meetup and conference speaker, and fan of Twitter (@konradkokosa). He also shares his passion as a trainer in the area of .NET, especially regarding application performance, coding good practices, and diagnostics. He is a Microsoft MVP in the Visual Studio and Development Tools category. He is co-founder of the Dotnetos.org initiative of three .NET fans organizing tours and conferences about .NET performance.
Christophe Nasarre has been developing and shipping software on Microsoft stacks for 30+ years. He has been working as a Technical Reviewer since 1996 on books such as CLR via C# and the last editions of Windows Internals. He provides tools and insights on .NET/Windows development and troubleshooting via Twitter (@chnasarre), and his open-source projects on GitHub. He does all of that on top of his job as a software engineer on the Profiling team at Datadog.
Kevin Gosse has been using Microsoft .NET technologies since the early days, across client, server, and mobile applications. He is Microsoft MVP and is currently employed at Datadog, where he works on the performance of the .NET APM. He writes deep-dive technical articles on his personal blog (minidump.net) and is active on Twitter under the alias @kookiz.
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