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Performance Improvements in .NET 9

Last year I wrote a summary of Stephen Toub’s Performance Improvements in .NET 8. That was so popular we’ve decided to do it again. Like…

Sep 21

Sep 21

Sometimes it’s all in the numbers

[originally published 03/02/2004 on MSDN, restored so it’s readable and searchable]

May 22

Sometimes it’s all in the numbers

May 22

General Guidelines for Software Performance Engineering in C++

I wrote these as sort of generic guidelines for the C++ Core Guidelines document. I don’t know if they will end up there, but I thought…

Apr 15

Apr 15

C++ for Security and Systems Programming — Objections

I was privileged to get early access to Herb’s excellent article on C++ safety. I love its pragmatic approach. Its thesis is, in short…

Mar 21

Mar 21

100% Unit Testing — Now It’s Ante

Introduction

Mar 18

Mar 18

Array Bounds Checking in 2024

I was chatting with a friend of mine about the costs we expect for this kind of thing and I recalled an experiment I did in the .NET JIT a…

Jan 2

Array Bounds Checking in 2024

Jan 2

Ambient Authority: The Root of all Evil

Not so many years ago I had the privilege of working on the Midori Research Operating System and it was one of the most educational two…

Dec 28, 2023

Dec 28, 2023

When Bad C++ Happens to Good People

A C++ Hazard Exposé

Nov 7, 2023

Nov 7, 2023

That’s Not Functional — It’s Just Bad

I have been ragging on “Modern C++” for months now and I have a new one.

Oct 23, 2023

Oct 23, 2023

Wrathmark: An Interesting Compute Workload (Part 2)

Context

Oct 18, 2023

Wrathmark: An Interesting Compute Workload (Part 2)

Oct 18, 2023

Rico Mariani

Rico Mariani

I’m an Architect at Microsoft; I specialize in software performance engineering and programming tools.

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