June 2009 - Posts

CLR Performance Questionnaire
15 June 09 01:28 PM | ricom | 8 Comments   

Vance Morrison posted an interesting opportunity for you to give feedback directly to the CLR perf team on your managed code performance issues. I encourage you to participate: If you use managed code, and you care about performance, then we want to hear Read More...

Visual Studio: Why is there no 64 bit version? (yet)
10 June 09 08:34 PM | ricom | 78 Comments   

Disclaimer: This is yet another of my trademarked "approximately correct" discussions From time to time customers or partners ask me about our plans to create a 64 bit version of Visual Studio. When is it coming? Why aren’t we making it a priority? Haven’t Read More...

Filed under: performance, ramblings, design advice, visual studio

Visual Studio 2010 Performance Part 2: Text Editor
05 June 09 08:04 PM | ricom | 17 Comments   

Part 1 of this series talked about the startup problems we face. In Part 2, I want to talk about the editor. Many people have reported that editing with the new editor is slower. I’ve experienced the same thing myself so I certainly do not want to accuse Read More...

Filed under: performance, visual studio