Writing High-Performance .NET Code

by Ben Watson

Take performance to the next level!


This book does not just teach you how the CLR works---it teaches you exactly what you need to do now to obtain the best performance today. It will expertly guide you through the nuts and bolts of extreme performance optimization in .NET, complete with in-depth examinations of CLR functionality, free tool recommendations and tutorials, useful anecdotes, and step-by-step guides to measure and improve performance.


This second edition incorporates the advances and improvements in .NET over the last few years, as well as greatly expanded coverage of tools, more topics, more tutorials, more tips, and improvements throughout the entire book.


New in the 2nd Edition:


- 50% increase in content!
- New examples, code samples, and diagrams throughout entire book
- More ways to analyze the heap and find memory problems
- More tool coverage, including expanded usage of Visual Studio
- More benchmarking
- New GC configuration options
- Code warmup techniques
- New .NET features such as ref-returns, value tuples, SIMD, and more
- More detailed analysis of LINQ
- Tips for high-level feature areas such as ASP.NET, ADO.NET, and WPF


Also find expanded coverage and discover new tips and tricks for:


- Profiling with multiple tools to quickly find problem areas
- Detailed description of the garbage collector, how to optimize your code for it, and how to diagnose difficult memory-related issues
- How to analyze JIT and diagnose warmup problems
- Effective use of the Task Parallel Library to maximize throughput
- Which .NET features and APIs to use and which to avoid
- Instrument your program with performance counters and ETW events
- Use the latest and greatest .NET features
- Build a performance-minded team
- ...and so much more

Genres: Programming, Computer Science, Technology, Software

526 pages, ebook

Published April 26, 2018

Reviews

[Vladimir · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a perfect guide to .Net performance world. Strongly recommended to everyone who wants to learn more about performance and to know how deep the rabbit hole is. I'm pretty sure, you won't be disappointed.

[Johnny · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book offers many gems and helpful ideas on tuning .Net code. However, the author ignores for half of the book that not everyone knows as much about the topic as he does. There is no explanation on the why and a direct deep-dive into the how. That results in a dry and boring start that may lead to many readers giving up. In the second half there is more about the why and the explicit performance impact on writing code in a certain way. That is the part in which an average .Net developer finds the useful data and can start with optimizing their code (using the tools explained in the first half). A bit more explanations on the why and on the pro and cons of different approaches early on would have made reading this book for me a lot simpler.

[Harshdeep · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a much-needed toolset for serious developers and architects to learn how to measure and improve performance.

The first couple set of chapters gives you a set of tools to measure and analyze performance.
- PerfView
- PerfMon
- WinDbg
- And countless other tools to give company to above three

The Middle section gives you a set of tools to understand and improve the framework and your code performance.
- Garbage Collection Internals & Tweaks
- JIT Internals and Tweaks
- Async Programming walkthrough

And the last few chapters give you a set of nuts and bolts to improve that last mile performance improvement which we ignore, mostly.

A fantastic book to upgrade any developer’s toolkit for work. Recommend to all serious .Net buddies.

[Alexey · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read the 1st ed. multiple times and will read the 2nd ed. again.

[Robson Castilho · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although this 2nd edition is from 2018, I think the book remains outdated in several topics, ignoring Cloud tools and . Net code outside Windows.