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This is the eighth part of the Concurrency series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Mutex performance in .NET We know how to use global mutexes to synchronize processes. However, there is a big drawback — we don’t know who owns the mutex and … Continue reading Concurrency Part 8 — Tracking mutex owner
This is the seventh part of the Concurrency series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Mutex performance in .NET Last time we examined an interesting behavior of Mutex when it is abandoned. Today we will look into Semaphore. Typical interview question is: what is … Continue reading Concurrency Part 7 — Semaphores trickery
This is the eleventh part of the .NET Inside Out series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Virtual and non-virtual calls in C# Last time we saw how type markers can result in code optimizations because .NET knows types with structs and can get … Continue reading .NET Inside Out Part 11 — Using structs for devirtualization
This is the thirteenth part of the Custom memory allocation series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 — Allocating object on a stack Recently Jean-Bernard Pellerin showed nice tricks for binary serialization in place. There is also a description of .NET Framework hack using unions … Continue reading Custom memory allocation in C# Part 13 — In-place serialization
This is the tenth part of the .NET Inside Out series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Virtual and non-virtual calls in C# If you are interested in the topic see the talk page Today we are going to see a concept of type … Continue reading .NET Inside Out Part 10 — Using type markers for low level optimizations