Bill Wert's weblog

Striving to make managed code fast...

Tip: Don't rely on environment variables for critical decisions

I saw a mail this week asking how you can determine what bitness your process is running in, and one...

Author: billwert Date: 02/24/2008

Use of SGEN.exe to avoid common XmlSerializer performance pitfalls

This week, I encountered a test scenario which makes use of an XmlSerializer on it's startup path....

Author: billwert Date: 02/23/2008

How often should we be measuring?

Testing performance is tough. As a product is being developed, you need to track the performance of...

Author: billwert Date: 04/13/2004

The best laid plans...

I started this, as most do, with the best of intentions. A long list of topics to discuss,...

Author: billwert Date: 04/07/2004

Timing your code

Timing your code One of the fundamental aspects of performance testing is identifying how long it...

Author: billwert Date: 03/11/2004

What To Watch

[Housekeeping stuff. I added categories. Neat stuff.] RichB asked me yesterday in the comments to my...

Author: billwert Date: 03/09/2004

Managed Code Performance

I never quite know how to start something like this without sounding a bit goofy. “Hi...

Author: billwert Date: 03/08/2004