Vance Morrison's Weblog

Introduction: What does ‘foreach’ actually do? It is not uncommon for a new group to want to use manage code to pepper the CLR team with performance questions. They want to know how expensive ‘foreach’ is, or whether certain methods get inlined...

This is just a quick plug for two articles that I wrote for MSDN magazine a few months back. They are What Every Dev Must Know About Multithreaded Apps Understand the Impact of Low-Lock Techniques in Multithreaded Apps The first article...

This is my first real blog entry, so I would like to introduce myself. My name is Vance Morrison and I am currently a performance architect on the .NET Runtime Team. I am one of a handful of developers who have worked on the .NET runtime from its inception...