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performance

How hard do you think about trimming process fat?

by maheshcr on August 23, 2007

Here is a great example of the kind of thinking that is critical for keeping your application’s service footprint lean. Larry Osterman poses a series of questions asking why your service process should be running, always?, is it necessary for all users?, in absence of any required hardware? and so on.
Perhaps we can extend this [...]

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XBOX Garbage Collector

by maheshcr on July 3, 2007

Shawn Hargreaves blogs about the XBOX garbage collector here and here. Very good posts both of them.
Though the specifics point to the XBOX and the .NET CF GC, I find the advice relevant and valid across all versions of the .NET runtime and GCs. I have read better articles and coverage of the GC behavior [...]

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