September 2004 - Posts

Performance planning for Risk Management
14 September 04 09:37 AM | ricom | 1 Comments   

Eric Gunnerson has an interesting position regarding my latest performance advice and I thought I'd respond to what he's written. Eric counsels in part: "...I'm not sure that you should spend too much time thinking about the issues that he's talking about..." Read More...

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Six Questions about Generics and Performance
13 September 04 02:43 PM | ricom | 16 Comments   

Here are some comments from a recent discussion on Generics that I thought were generally useful. The comments have been edited so that they fit better with the general format of a Q&A session. The origin of this discussion was some commentary on Read More...

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"Generic" advice on using language features in library
07 September 04 10:43 AM | ricom | 7 Comments   

One of the hard things about working on the CLR is that your code is likely to be used in a wide variety of situations and so from a performance perspective you have to be a lot more careful than if you're just writing tools for a specific context that Read More...

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Tracking changes over time
07 September 04 07:38 AM | ricom | 1 Comments   

I got some interesting questions from a colleague over the long weekend which I thought were of general interest We don’t have an industry std benchmarks for a lot of scenarios and here is how I want to sign off on the performance of any build – If (we Read More...

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