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High-Performance Programming in C# and .NET

By : Jason Alls
Book Image

High-Performance Programming in C# and .NET

By: Jason Alls

Overview of this book

Writing high-performance code while building an application is crucial, and over the years, Microsoft has focused on delivering various performance-related improvements within the .NET ecosystem. This book will help you understand the aspects involved in designing responsive, resilient, and high-performance applications with the new version of C# and .NET. You will start by understanding the foundation of high-performance code and the latest performance-related improvements in C# 10.0 and .NET 6. Next, you’ll learn how to use tracing and diagnostics to track down performance issues and the cause of memory leaks. The chapters that follow then show you how to enhance the performance of your networked applications and various ways to improve directory tasks, file tasks, and more. Later, you’ll go on to improve data querying performance and write responsive user interfaces. You’ll also discover how you can use cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure to build scalable distributed solutions. Finally, you’ll explore various ways to process code synchronously, asynchronously, and in parallel to reduce the time it takes to process a series of tasks. By the end of this C# programming book, you’ll have the confidence you need to build highly resilient, high-performance applications that meet your customer's demands.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Part 1: High-Performance Code Foundation
7
Part 2: Writing High-Performance Code
16
Part 3: Threading and Concurrency

Caching resources in memory

Caching items in memory requires RAM to be allocated so that they can be stored and retrieved efficiently. Storing frequently accessed resources in memory greatly improves the performance of applications.

A typical application that benefits from caching is a website. A traditional website will consist of HTML pages that define the structure of the visual web page that’s displayed to end users, CSS, which styles the page and makes it look nice, and JavaScript, which makes websites dynamic and interactive.

Many pages of a website can use the same resources, such as data, images, sounds, files, and objects. Caching – temporarily storing some item so that it can be retrieved efficiently – can be done with a database, filesystem, or memory.

In this section, we will learn how to store items in memory. Microsoft recommends the use of their Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Memory NuGet package for caching items in memory. Therefore...