awesome-dot-net-performance
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A curated list of awesome .NET Performance books, courses, trainings, conference talks, blogs and most inspiring open source contributors. Inspired by awesome-... stuff.
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A curated collection of resources and experts focused on optimizing .NET performance
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Books
- Pro .NET Performance: Optimize Your C# Applications
by Sasha Goldshtein, Dima Zurbalev, Ido Flatow (2012)
- Pro .NET Memory Management: For Better Code, Performance, and Scalability
by Konrad Kokosa (2018)
- Pro .NET Benchmarking: The Art of Performance Measurement
by Andrey Akinshin (2019)
- CLR via C#
by Jeffrey Richter (2012)
- Pro Asynchronous Programming with .NET
by Richard Blewett, Andrew Clymer (2013)
- Writing High-Performance .NET Code
by Ben Watson (2018)
- Advanced .NET Debugging
by Mario Hewardt (2009)
- Concurrent Programming on Windows
by Joe Duffy (2008)
- .NET IL Assembler
by Serge Lidin (2014)
- High-Performance Windows Store Apps
by Brian Rasmussen (2014)
- Customizing the Microsoft® .NET Framework Common Language Runtime
by Steven Pratschner (2005)
- Under the Hood of .NET Memory Management
by Chris Farrell and Nick Harrison (2011)
- Functional Concurrency in .NET
by Riccardo Terrell (2018)
Video Courses
- Mastering .NET Performance Tuning
by John Robbins
- Making .NET Applications Faster
by Sasha Goldshtein
- Making .NET Applications Even Faster
by Sasha Goldshtein
- Measuring .NET Performance
by Sasha Goldshtein
- PerfView Tutorial
by Vance Morrison
- Defrag Tools - Perf View
by Vance Morrison
- High Performance Coding with .NET Core and C#
by Gergely Kalapos
- part 1
Defrag tools about CLR GC and with Maoni Stephens
- .NET Async Expert
by Dotnetos
- .NET Memory Expert
by Dotnetos
- .NET Diagnostics Expert
by Dotnetos
On-Site Trainings
- .NET Performance and Debugging Workshop
by SELA (Israel)
- .NET Performance
by SELA (Israel)
- Parallel Programming with the TPL
by SELA (Israel)
- Solid Async in .NET
by Rock Solid Knowledge (UK)
- Mastering .NET Performance Tuning
by Wintellect (USA)
- Mastering .NET Threading
by Wintellect (USA)
Upcoming conferences / 2021
- Dotnetos - .NET Performance World
Two-day conference dedicated solely to .NET performance! (05-06 October 2021, Online)
Conference talks / 2021
- Background type preloading and MultiCoreJit in .NET 6
by Gleb Balykov (15.09.2021, Samsung Open Source Conference Russia)
Conference talks / 2020
- Running .NET Core performance investigation on Linux
by Adam Sitnik (20.11.2020, DotNext)
- What's so hard about pinning?
by Maoni Stephens, (28.09.2020, Dotnetos Conference)
- The Art of Tracing
by Sebastian Solnica (01.10.2020, Dotnetos Conference)
- Performance Improvements in .NET 5
by Stephen Toub (02.10.2020, Dotnetos Conference)
- Beating CoreCLR's own C++ code with CoreCLR 3.0 intrinsics
by Dan Shechter (10.03.2020, DotNext)
- From ETW to EventPipe
by Christophe Nasarre-Soulier (10.03.2020, DotNext)
Conference talks / 2019
- What the game industry taught me about performance
by Brian Rasmussen, (10.11.2019, Øredev)
- Compiling and Running a PHP on .NET Core
by Jakub Míšek, (11.10.2019, Dotnetos Conference)
- Ethereum performance in .NET Core
by Tomasz Stanczak, Piotr Gankiewicz, (11.10.2019, Dotnetos Conference)
- To ORM or not to ORM
by Łukasz Dziekan, (11.10.2019, Dotnetos Conference)
- Writing Allocation Free Code in C#
by Matt Ellis, (11.10.2019, Dotnetos Conference)
- Cliff diving into async in .NET Core and C# 8
by Daniel Marbach, (11.10.2019, Dotnetos Conference)
- Performance Testing
by Andrey Akinshin, (10.10.2019, Dotnetos Conference)
- How Entity Framework translates LINQ all the way to SQL
by Shay Rojansky, (10.10.2019, Dotnetos Conference)
- .NET Intrinsics in CoreCLR 3.0
by Dan Schechter, (10.10.2019, Dotnetos Conference)
- The .NET Garbage Collector
by Peter Sollich, (10.10.2019, Dotnetos Conference)
- .NET Performance Investigation
by Adam Sitnik, (10.10.2019, Dotnetos Conference)
- Performance in the .NET Runtime
by Matt Warren, (10.10.2019, Dotnetos Conference)
- Spanification
by Adam Sitnik (09.09.2019, Update Conference Prague)
- Debugging asynchronous scenarios in .NET
by Kevin Gosse, Christophe Nasarre (16.08.2019, DotNext)
- Building your own profiling and diagnosis tools with Event Tracing for Windows
by Pavel Yosifovich (16.08.2019, DotNext)
- JIT and AOT in the CLR
by Mei-Chin Tsai (30.07.2019, JVM Language Summit)
- Powerful benchmarking in .NET
by Adam Sitnik (09.07.2019, Update Conference Prague)
- What’s new for performance in .NET Core and ASP.NET Core 3.0
by Ben Adams (08.07.2019, .NET Core Summer Event)
- Ref struct, ref readonly struct, ref returning, ref everything!
by Konrad Kokosa (04.06.2019, DotNext)
- Building responsive and scalable applications
by Jeffrey Richter (26.03.2019, DotNext)
- Make your custom .NET GC — "whys" and "hows"
by Konrad Kokosa (18.03.2019, DotNext)
- Extend the new WinDbg to build your own dream debugging tool
by Kevin Gosse (18.03.2019, DotNext)
- Tuning a Runtime for Both Productivity and Performance
by Mei-Chin Tsai (26.02.2019, QCon)
Conference talks / 2018
- Efficient Buffer Manipulation using C# 7.2's Span
by Jeffrey Richter (28.11.2018, SPB .NET Meetup)
- Building your own debugging toolbox with ClrMD
by Christophe Nasarre (28.11.2018, DotNext)
- Scratched metal
by Federico Lois (26.10.2018, DotNext)
- PerfView: The Ultimate .NET Performance Tool
by Sasha Goldshtein (27.08.2018, QCon)
- Advanced .NET debugging techniques from a real world investigation
by Christophe Nasarre & Kevin Gosse (21.08.2018, DotNext)
- Patterns for high-performance C#
by Federico Lois (08.02.2018, DotNext)
Conference talks / 2017
- What's new for performance in .NET Core 2.0
by Ben Adams (2017.11.09, CORESTART 2.0)
- State of the .NET Performance
by Adam Sitnik (2017.07.05, NDC)
- Look Mommy, No GC!
by Dina Goldshtein (2017.03.23, NDC)
- Squeezing the Hardware to Make Performance Juice
by Sasha Goldshtein (2017.03.17, DotNext)
- Performance tuning Stack Overflow tags
by Marco Cecconi (2017.03.17, DotNext)
- Multithreading Deep Dive
by Gael Fraiteur (2017.03.17, DotNext)
- Stack Overflow — It's all about performance!
by Marco Cecconi (2017.03.17, DotNext)
- ETW — Monitor Anything, Anytime, Anywhere
by Dina Goldshtein (2017.03.17, DotNext)
- Exceptional Exceptions in .NET
by Adam Sitnik (2017.03.17, DotNext)
Conference talks / 2016
- PerfView: Measure and Improve Your App's Performance For Free
by Sasha Goldshtein (2016.11.02, DotNext)
- The C++ and CLR Memory Models
by Sasha Goldshtein (2016.11.02, DotNext)
- Safe Systems Programming in C# and .NET
by Joe Duffy (2016.08.20, QCon)
- ASP.NET Core Kestrel: Adventures in building a fast web server
by Damian Edwards & David Fowler (2016.08.12, NDC)
- Performance and How to Measure It
by Matt Warren (2016.07.28, ProgSCon)
- Performance Optimizations in the Wild
by Oren Eini (Ayende) (2016.06.23, NDC)
- The Vector in Your CPU: Exploiting SIMD for Superscalar Performance
by Sasha Goldshtein (2016.04.19, DotNext)
- Lessons in Extreme .NET Performance
by Ben Watson (2016.03.13, QCon)
Conference talks / Older
- Making .NET applications faster
by Sasha Goldshtein (2015.10.30, DevWeek)
- The zen of async: Best practices for best performance
by Stephen Toub (2011.09.13, Build)
Blogs
Inspiring Open Source Contributors
Performance tools / Benchmarking
BenchmarkDotNet
Powerful .NET library for benchmarking
NBench
Cross-platform performance benchmarking and testing framework for .NET applications
CsCheck Faster
Random data range, multithreaded, cross-platform/machine, unit testing integrated, relative performance testing
Performance tools / Profiling
- Prefix
Free lightweight profiler for ASP.NET apps shows everything your code is doing across 30+ common libraries
- MiniProfiler
Free profiling tool for .NET applications with Entity Framework and ASP.Net integration (Core supported for both versions)
- dotTrace
Paid profiler for .NET applications from the JetBrains team, included in the Resharper Ultimate package
Unchase.FluentPerformanceMeter
Free open-source and cross-platform .Net Standard 2.0 library that is designed for the method’s performance measurement
- codetrack
Free .NET performance profiler and execution analyzer
Performance tools / Application Insights
App Metrics
App Metrics is an open-source and cross-platform .NET library used to record and report metrics within an application and reports it's health. See the docs for details
Performance tools / Analyzers
- Clr Heap Allocation Analyzer
Clr Heap Allocation Analyzer is a Roslyn based Diagnostic Analyzer that is able to detect most allocations in code in the local method and bring them to your attention in Visual Studio
Performance tools / Load Testing
NBomber
A lightweight framework for writing load tests to use on any PULL or PUSH system (HTTP, WebSockets, GraphQl, gRPC, SQL Databse, MongoDb, Redis etc). Dynamic CLI output, report generation, and trend analysis. Written in F# and targeting .NET Core and full .NET Framework
- JMeter DLS
A simple API for JMeter that enables using you IDE to design and run test using .NET
Article series / Benchmarking
by Adam Sitnik
- The Art of Benchmarking
by Matt Warren
- Adventures in Benchmarking - Memory Allocations
by Matt Warren
- Micro-Benchmarking Done Wrong, And For The Wrong Reasons
by Sasha Goldshtein
- On ‘stackalloc’ Performance and The Large Object Heap
by Sasha Goldshtein
- Micro-Benchmarking Considered Harmful
by Sasha Goldshtein
- On Measuring Performance
by Sasha Goldshtein
- Stopwatch under the hood
by Andrey Akinshin
- DateTime under the hood
by Andrey Akinshin
- Benchmarking made easy
by Jon Skeet
- Simple microbenchmarking in C#
by Jon Skeet
- Performance exercise: Minimum
by Andrey Akinshin
- Performance exercise: Division
by Andrey Akinshin
- AWS Lambda — Container Image .NET Benchmark
by İren Saltalı
Article series / Monitoring
- Performance Counters Hell
by Criteo Labs
- Replace .NET performance counters by CLR event tracing
by Criteo Labs
- Grab ETW Session, Providers and Events
by Criteo Labs
- In-process CLR event listeners with .NET Core 2.2
by Christophe Nasarre
- Spying on .NET Garbage Collector with TraceEvent
by Christophe Nasarre
Article series / Investigations
- High-performance .NET by example: Filtering bot traffic
by Alexandr Nikitin
- RyuJIT and the never-ending ThreadAbortException
by Criteo Labs
- 9 posts about how to build your own toolbox with ClrMD
by Criteo Labs
- Get-process-name challenge on a Friday afternoon
by Christophe Nasarre
- Tuning performance on Azure websites using remote profiling
by Thomas Ardal
Article series / Debugging performances series by Tess Ferrandez
Article series / JIT Optimizations
- Loop alignment in .NET
by Kunal Pathak
by Carol Eidt
- JIT Optimizations
by Sasha Goldshtein
- JIT Optimizations, Inlining, and Interface Method Dispatching (Part 1 of N)
by Sasha Goldshtein
- JIT Optimizations, Inlining, and Interface Method Dispatching (Part 2 of N)
by Sasha Goldshtein
- Performance differences between debug and release builds
by Hans Passant
- Aggressive Inlining in the CLR 4.5 JIT
by Sasha Goldshtein
- Jit Optimizations: Inlining (I)
by David Notario
- Jit Optimizations: Inlining (II)
by David Notario
- More on inlining…
by Eric Gunnerson
- To Inline or not to Inline: That is the question
by Vance Morrison
- Does the JIT take advantage of my CPU?
by David Notario
- Unrolling of small loops in different JIT versions
by Andrey Akinshin
- RyuJIT CTP5 and loop unrolling
by Andrey Akinshin
- RyuJIT RC and constant folding
by Andrey Akinshin
- A story about JIT-x86 inlining and starg
by Andrey Akinshin
- LegacyJIT-x86 and first method call
by Andrey Akinshin
- Do PDB Files Affect Performance?
by John Robbins
- What does the optimize switch do?
by Eric Lippert
- Hoisting in .NET Explained (part 1)
by Alexandr Nikitin
- Hoisting in .NET Examples (part 2)
by Alexandr Nikitin
Some Notes on Using Machine Learning to Develop Inlining HeuristicsArticle series / Refs
- ref returns are not pointers
by Vladimir Sadov
- managed pointers
by Vladimir Sadov
- Local variables cannot be returned by reference
by Vladimir Sadov
- Safe to return rules for ref returns
by Vladimir Sadov
- Why ref locals allow only a single binding?
by Vladimir Sadov
- ref returns and locals
by Adam Sitnik
Article series / Threading
- An Introduction to System.Threading.Channels
by Stephen Toub
- ConfigureAwait FAQ
by Stephen Toub
- Threading in C#
by Joseph Albahari
Article series / Memory
.NET Memory Performance Analysis
by Maoni Stephens
- GC Perf Infrastructure – Part 1
by Maoni Stephens
- GC Perf Infrastructure – Part 0
by Maoni Stephens
- The history of the GC configs
by Maoni Stephens
- Finalization implementation details
by Maoni Stephens
- Making CPU configuration better for GC on machines with > 64 CPUs
by Maoni Stephens
- Running with Server GC in a Small Container Scenario Part 0
by Maoni Stephens
- You Should Never See This Callstack in Production
by Maoni Stephens
- Middle Ground between Server and Workstation GC
by Maoni Stephens
- Pooling large arrays with ArrayPool
by Adam Sitnik
- Value Types vs Reference Types
by Adam Sitnik
- Span
by Adam Sitnik
Article series / .NET CPU Intrinsics
- Vectorization using .NET APIs
by Kunal Pathak
- Hardware Intrinsics in .NET Core
by Tanner Gooding
- Exploring .NET Core platform intrinsics: Part 1 - Accelerating SHA-256 on ARMv8
by Nemanja Mijailovic
- Exploring .NET Core platform intrinsics: Part 4 - Alignment and pipelining
by Nemanja Mijailovic
- .NET Core 3.0 Intrinsics in Real Life - 1/3
by damageboy
- .NET Core 3.0 Intrinsics in Real Life - 2/3
by damageboy
- .NET Core 3.0 Intrinsics in Real Life - 3/3
by damageboy
- Decimating Array.Sort with AVX2 - 1/∞
by damageboy
- Decimating Array.Sort with AVX2 - 2/∞
by damageboy
- Decimating Array.Sort with AVX2 - 3/∞
by damageboy
Article series / Performance Improvements in .NET Core
- Performance Improvements in .NET 9
by Stephen Toub
- Performance Improvements in .NET 8
by Stephen Toub
- Performance Improvements in .NET 7
by Stephen Toub
- Performance Improvements in .NET 6
by Stephen Toub
- Regex Performance Improvements in .NET 5
by Stephen Toub
- Performance Improvements in .NET 5
by Stephen Toub
- Performance Improvements in .NET Core 3.0
by Stephen Toub
- Performance Improvements in .NET Core 2.1
by Stephen Toub
- Performance Improvements in .NET Core
by Stephen Toub
Article series / ARM64
- Arm64 Hardware Intrinsics APIs in .NET - Part 6
by Kunal Pathak
- Arm64 Hardware Intrinsics APIs in .NET - Part 5
by Kunal Pathak
- Arm64 Hardware Intrinsics APIs in .NET - Part 4
by Kunal Pathak
- Arm64 Hardware Intrinsics APIs in .NET - Part 3
by Kunal Pathak
- Arm64 Hardware Intrinsics APIs in .NET - Part 2
by Kunal Pathak
- Arm64 Hardware Intrinsics APIs in .NET - Part 1
by Kunal Pathak
- Peephole optimizations in .NET
by Kunal Pathak
- Memory barriers in ARM64
by Kunal Pathak
- ARM64 performance of .Net Core 5
by Kunal Pathak
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