Writing High-performance .net Code

This book takes performance to the extreme, which is not a bad thing. I enjoyed the constant trade-offs between abstraction and performance and understanding that they have an inverse relationship. The book does a great job of discussing Garbage Collection and how to work with it not against it. Overall I got some useful information that will cause me to change the way I handle certain parts of my code such as collections and error handling.

This is not a book on following rules of thumb. It is a book to deepen your understanding, enabling you to make better decisions. Also includes some example paradoxical performance issues and the reasoning that went into solving them. And gotchas on measuring performance. Complex systems optimizations is a technical art that involves a lot of theory.

Really cool book with many interesting tricks about the .net framework. In general, my favorite chapter was chapter 4, in which mister Watson talked about async and paralellism.I also liked chapter 5, in which several general advices were given about stantard c# code that we may see written (and I have written in the past) out there.I would have liked to see actually more general advices in chapter 5; and perhaps a mention to asp.net.

I'm working over the summer interning at a C# shop and found lots of the information in the book useful. Ben provides a rich set of tools and just the right level of abstraction of the CLR.

Great book filled with insight learned over many years of detailed analysis of .NET code and performance. HIGHLY recommended if you're interested in learning how to measure, analyze and improve the performance of your .NET apps.

Great deal of information in this book. Information in this book is valuable and not something easily found on the internet.

The book is well written and full of interesting insights. Every .NET developer should be at least familiar with all topics covered on this book.

Ben's book provides valuable analysis for programmers to utilize when choosing how to implement software solutions. Very difficult to read due to the complexity of the subject matter combined with frustrating grammatical speedbumps.

Nel libro sono presenti tante tecniche, tricks e best practices da applicare ogni giorno. Sicuramente offre molti spunti per migliorare il codice esistente o nuovo.

Lots of great information. Well explained. I haven't had chance to implement any of the ideas in detail but now I always have performance in mind in everything I write.Sadly performance is an after thought in most .NET applications but I will recommend my manager reads this book whenever we get around to looking at improving the performance of our system.

Un ouvrage récent qui explore en détail toutes les subtilités de notre langage préféré, le .Net. A lire plusieurs fois et à retravailler chez soi (ou au boulot) sur des cas pratiques. On ne peut que dire Bravo à l'auteur pour nous avoir révélé tous les secrets de ce langage.

Brilliant read. Highlighted a few things I was doing wrong and learned lots of good stuff too.

A really helpfull book, provides handy solutions to improve performances of its application. The chapter on garbage collector is excellent as it provides first a clear explanation of how it works, and then show how to practically investigates its perf with tools.