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C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0 High Performance

By : Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan
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C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0 High Performance

By: Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan

Overview of this book

While writing an application, performance is paramount. Performance tuning for realworld applications often involves activities geared toward fnding bottlenecks; however, this cannot solve the dreaded problem of slower code. If you want to improve the speed of your code and optimize an application's performance, then this book is for you. C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0 High Performance begins with an introduction to the new features of what?explaining how they help in improving an application's performance. Learn to identify the bottlenecks in writing programs and highlight common performance pitfalls, and learn strategies to detect and resolve these issues early. You will explore multithreading and asynchronous programming with .NET Core and learn the importance and effcient use of data structures. This is followed with memory management techniques and design guidelines to increase an application’s performance. Gradually, the book will show you the importance of microservices architecture for building highly performant applications and implementing resiliency and security in .NET Core. After reading this book, you will learn how to structure and build scalable, optimized, and robust applications in C#7 and .NET.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
5
Designing Guidelines for .NET Core Application Performance

Avoiding finalizers

Using finalizers is not a good practice to use in .NET Core applications. Objects that use finalizers stay in memory longer and ultimately affect the application's performance.

Objects that are not required by the application at a particular point in time stay in the memory so that their Finalizer method can be called. For example, if the object is considered dead by the GC in generation 0, it will always survive in generation 1.

In .NET Core, CLR maintains a separate thread to run the Finalizer method. All the objects that contain the Finalizer method are placed into the finalization queue. Any object that is no longer required by the application is placed in the F-Reachable queue, which is then executed by the dedicated finalizer thread.

The following diagram shows an object1 object that contains a Finalizer method. The Finalizer method is placed in...