2022-08-26 22:09
The Kennedy Center posted this short discussion with John Williams from June 24, 2022. I believe there are some valuable life lessons contained inside John’s responses to Deborah… Read More
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Code and musings by Ben Watson. I\'m a Bing developer in Washington.
2022-08-11 17:44
I have been a fan of the film composer John Williams since I was young. The first CD I ever bought was the soundtrack to Jurassic Park. I still have it. My collection now looks like this… Read More
2019-10-18 16:02
It’s a long time coming, but I’ve finally released the next version of Microsoft.IO.RecyclableMemoryStream!
Links
CodeNuget PackageWhat’s New
Bug Fixes
Removed… Read More
2018-07-07 22:28
Earlier this year, I published my third book, Writing High-Performance .NET Code (2nd Edition), my second that was fully self-published. In this article I want to detail a topic that I found… Read More
2018-05-23 17:41
Head on over to http://www.writinghighperf.net to read a sample chapter of Writing High-Performance .NET Code, 2nd Edition. The sample PDF also includes some of the front and back material t… Read More
2018-05-16 03:34
I was recently on .NET Rocks!. Carl and Richard were great. Go here to listen to us discuss a bunch of perf stuff.
Check out my latest book, the essential, in-depth guide to performance for… Read More
2018-05-07 22:49
I was recently interviewed by the wonderful Bryan Hogan for his No Dogma podcast. Check out the episode here. If you want to subscribe, which you should, podcast feed is here. You can follow… Read More
2018-03-17 00:25
The new book will be available for sale on or around May 1, 2018. You can pre-order right now for Kindle in many Amazon markets, and for print as well in the US.
The new book is a mix o… Read More
2015-03-10 17:43
What’s wrong with this code:
try
{
if (!Monitor.TryEnter(this.lockObj))
{
return;
}
DoWork();
}
finally
{
Monitor.Exit(this.lockObj);
}
This is a rook… Read More
2015-03-09 17:00
As of last week, when you buy the print version of Writing High-Performance .NET Code from Amazon, you can get the Kindle version for free.
Check out my latest book, the essential, in-depth… Read More
2015-03-02 16:00
I was recently debugging a problem that just didn’t make any sense at first.
The code looked like this:
class App
{
public bool IsRunning {get; set;}
… Read More
2015-02-06 20:00
It is with great pleasure that I announce the latest open source release from Microsoft. This time it’s coming from Bing.
Before explaining what it is and how it works, I have to menti… Read More
2014-12-19 04:06
Just a recap of the things that have occurred this year. I have been truly blessed, and I have lot to be thankful for. Just a small part of them here…
Writing High-Performance .NET Co… Read More
2014-12-01 04:48
My book Writing High-Performance .NET Code is already pretty inexpensive by programming book standards, but I’ve added a new deal. If you want to do get both the PDF and the EPUB, you… Read More
2014-11-20 22:52
Introduction
In this article I am going to go into detail about how .NET treats loops involving array and collection access and what kinds of optimizations you can expect. I had mentioned s… Read More
2014-11-10 14:00
In this article, I want to go through the process of writing a book, to give others who are thinking of writing a general idea of what kinds of things you will need to do. This is the articl… Read More
2014-11-08 20:56
I recently read Brian Rasmussen’s book High-Performance Windows Store Apps, and I think it’s an excellent companion to my own Writing High-Performance .NET Code.
It’s a goo… Read More
2014-10-23 00:31
A MemoryStream is a useful thing to have around when you want to process an array of bytes as a stream, but there are a few gotchas you need to be aware of, and some alternatives that may be… Read More
2014-10-13 14:00
I frequently get asked by family, friends, and acquaintances why they should use Bing over our competitors. This post is a comprehensive answer to that question, as much as it can be.
Note t… Read More
2014-09-30 07:09
Carl and Richard put together a great podcast. .NET Rocks! has existed for years now and it’s amazing how many episodes they’ve published.
A couple of weeks ago, I had the privil… Read More
2014-09-29 14:00
[Note: this article also appeared on CodeProject]
Introduction
While understanding garbage collection fundamentals is vital to working with .NET, it is also important to understand how objec… Read More
2014-09-23 14:43
In general, I try to avoid Apple products when I can, but I do use and enjoy and iPod Nano for podcasts.
With the recent update to 11.4 I noticed that my podcasts were not refreshing, eithe… Read More
2014-09-15 13:53
Nearly 7 years ago, I wrote a little article called The Top 5 Attributes of Highly Effective Programmers that got some good feedback and has proven popular over time.
One matures as a develo… Read More
2014-09-04 05:08
In Part 1, I discussed the basics of WeakReference and WeakReference<T>. Part 2 introduced short and long weak references as well as the concept of resurrection. I also covered how to… Read More
2014-08-28 19:04
I modified Chapter 5 from Writing High-Performance .NET Code and posted it as an article at CodeProject. Take a look and tell me what you think!
Check out my latest book, the essential, in-d… Read More
2014-08-20 14:01
Last time, I talked about the basics of using WeakReference, what they meant and how the CLR treats them. Today in part 2, I’ll discuss some important subtleties. Part 3 of this series… Read More
2014-08-15 05:31
In Writing High-Performance .NET Code, I mention the WeakReference type briefly in Chapter 2 (Garbage Collection), but I don’t go into it too much. However, for the blog, I want to sta… Read More
2014-08-15 05:31
In Writing High-Performance .NET Code, I mention the WeakReference type briefly in Chapter 2 (Garbage Collection), but I don’t go into it too much. However, for the blog, I want to sta… Read More
Using Windbg To Answer Implementation Questions For Yourself (Can A Delegate Invocation Be Inlined?)
2014-07-25 14:01
The other day, a colleague of mine asked me: Can a generated delegate be inlined? Or something similar to this. My answer was that the generated code is going to be JITted and optimized like… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I’m going to talk about a product today, and no, this post is not sponsored. This is just something I recently started using and it really worked out for me. When we moved into our cur… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
In my previous artlcle, I discussed 4 ways to optimize your server application for good garbage collection performance. An essential part of that process is being able to analyze your GC per… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Update: Part 2 – How to Debug GC Issues with PerfView is now available. On this blog, I’ve alluded to the fact that I work on high-performance server applications, most recently… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
A common pattern for lazy-initialization of a possibly-expensive type is double-checked locking. The pattern is essentially this: // member field private volatile MyType myObject = null; pri… Read More
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