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January 9, 2006 Jan 9, 2006 01/9/06

maoni

In my previous Using GC Efficiently entries I've basically covered all the big areas of GC in the CLR. There are of course a lot of things to write about GC but I want to keep GC users as my target audience, not GC designers/implementors. So I would really like to hear from you - our customers of the .NET Framework - if you have ...

So, what’s new in the CLR 2.0 GC?

October 4, 2005 Oct 4, 2005 10/4/05

maoni

Certainly that’s one of the most frequently asked questions I get (at the PDC too!). So since PDC already happened I can tell the rest of you about the new stuff happened in GC in CLR 2.0. The slides can be downloaded here. And I will be referring to some of the slides. I must apologize for your having to click on the link to see the slide ...

GC talk at the 2005 PDC

July 27, 2005 Jul 27, 2005 07/27/05

maoni

I will be giving a GC talk at the PDC this September. This talk is to give you a close up view of the CLR GC so I hope to see all you hard core .NET developers there! I will talk about some internal details of generations, allocations, different flavors of GC and fragmentation (what we have done in the GC and what you can do in your ...

Using GC Efficiently – Part 4

May 6, 2005 May 6, 2005 05/6/05

maoni

In this article I’ll talk about things you want to look for when you look at the managed heap in your applications to determine if you have a healthy heap. I’ll touch on some topics related to large heaps and the implications you want to be aware of when you have an application that maintains or has potential for the need to maintain a ...

Using GC Efficiently – Part 3

December 19, 2004 Dec 19, 2004 12/19/04

maoni

In this article I’ll talk about pinning and weak references – stuff related to GC handles.   (I was planning on talking about finalization in this part of the “Using GC Efficiently” series but since I already covered it in pretty much detail in one of my previous blog entries I won’t repeat it here. Feel free to ask if you have ...

Tools that help diagnose managed memory related issues

November 8, 2004 Nov 8, 2004 11/8/04

maoni

I was writing an internal wiki page on performance and thought this info is useful to many external readers as well so here it goes. vadump is a good start. It’s an mstools tool – meaning you can find it on your NT CD under bin\mstools. You can take a snapshot of the process and see if the GC heap is an issue or not. It was created a long ...

Clearing up some confusion over finalization and other areas in GC

November 4, 2004 Nov 4, 2004 11/4/04

maoni

In the WinDev conference that I just went to, there seems to be some confusion over finalization (such as why it even exists and etc) and other areas. I hope the following will clear up that confusion. If not, let me know.   Finalization   1)      Why we have finalization   Finalization is necessary ...

Using GC Efficiently – Part 2

September 25, 2004 Sep 25, 2004 09/25/04

maoni

In this article I’ll talk about different flavors of GC, the design goals behind each of them and how they work differently from each other so you can make a good decision of which flavor of GC you should choose for your applications.   Existing GC flavors in the runtime today   We have the following flavors of GC today:   1)&...

WinDev in Boston

September 6, 2004 Sep 6, 2004 09/6/04

maoni

I am going to WinDev this year to give 2 performance talks. Check out: http://butrain.bu.edu/windev/track2.asp (it's from Oct 25 to 29) Below is the description: C5 - CLR PerformanceWrite faster managed code! Learn about performance engineering, tools and issues specific to managed code including: garbage collection (GC), managed code ...

Using GC Efficiently – Part 1

June 15, 2004 Jun 15, 2004 06/15/04

maoni

So the goal here is to explain the cost of things so you can make good decisions in your managed memory usage – it’s not to explain GC itself - it’s to explain how to use it. I assume most of you are more interested in using a garbage collector than implementing one yourself.  It assumes basic understanding of GC. Jeff ...