CLR and Framework Perf Blog

High Priority Threads can extend Server GC Latencies

Hi! My name is Mohamed Abd EL Aziz, and I am a member of the CLR Performance Test team. I am going...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 05/14/2010

Measuring Startup And Memory Usage

Hi! My name is Bill Wert, and I’m a member of the CLR Performance Test team. I’m going to write a...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 01/04/2010

The CLR Performance Test Team's Charter

This blog introduces the CLR Performance Test Team which plays a pivotal role in enhancing the...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/04/2009

Computing Time in .NET

One of the pitfalls with the abundance of classes that .NET provides is not picking the right class...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/08/2009

Improving Startup Time: A primer on setting base-addresses for managed DLLs

Startup time is one of the most perceptible performance issues for any application. In this post,...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/17/2009

.NET Framework Performance Survey

Update: Thank you to everyone who participated - we had a good response. This survey will be closed...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 05/28/2009

Improving NetFX 3.5SP1 Application Startup

As most of you probably experienced, NetFX 3.5SP1 offers significant performance improvements over...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/16/2008

Using the System.GC APIs to Improve Performance

Chris Lyon here. You may remember me from such blogs as How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/18/2008

Track down DLL loading using Visual Studio

Application performance matters --- including start up times, working sets and memory consumption....

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/22/2008

Adding Custom Actions to NGen an Assembly upon Install

This document details how to use custom actions to Ngen (generate a native image) upon installation...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/02/2008

Investigating Framework Performance on Itanium: Rudimentary Considerations

So let's begin the Performance conversation! The area I'd like to delve into for this post is the...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 05/12/2008

Welcome to the CLR and Framework Perf Blog!

This blog will contain interesting tips and tidbits on all things CLR and the .NET Framework Perf...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/19/2008