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Articles by Ben M Watson (Articles: 3, Technical Blogs: 8)
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General Programming
Optimization
Digging Into .NET Loop Performance, Bounds-checking, Iteration, and Unrolling
20 Nov 2014 Updated:
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Get into the details of .NET array access optimization and how you can pattern your code for efficiency.
Programming Languages
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Performance Considerations of Class Design and General Coding in .NET
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Understand the performance tradeoffs when designing your classes, as well as what to watch out for when using the various language and CLR features in .NET
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Digging into .NET Object Allocation Fundamentals
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Understand exactly what happens during object allocation in .NET, why it's extremely efficient in the common case, and how to trigger slower code paths
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Short vs. Long Weak References and Object Resurrection [Technical Blog]
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Prefer WeakReference to WeakReference<T> [Technical Blog]
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5 More Attributes of Highly Effective Programmers [Technical Blog]
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Announcing Microsoft.IO.RecycableMemoryStream [Technical Blog]
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Using Windbg to Answer Implementation Questions for Yourself (Can a Delegate Invocation be Inlined?) [Technical Blog]
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Learn how to use the debugger to answer implementation questions for yourself
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Practical Uses of WeakReference [Technical Blog]
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Using MemoryStream to Wrap Existing Buffers: Gotchas and Tips [Technical Blog]
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Using MemoryStream to wrap existing buffers: Gotchas and tips
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Get Your Thread Synchronization Right the First Time [Technical Blog]
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Ben M Watson
Software Developer (Senior)
Microsoft
United States
Ben Watson has been a software engineer at Microsoft since 2008. On the Bing platform team, he has built one of the world's leading .NET-based, high-performance server applications, handling high-volume, low-latency requests across thousands of machines for millions of customers. In his spare time, he enjoys geocaching, books of all kinds, classical music, and spending time with his family. He is the author of
Writing High-Performance .NET Code
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C# 4.0 How-To
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Philosophical Geek
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