InterestingBlogs.md

Blogs that specifically cover .NET internals at a low-level, with some typical posts and/or my favourite reads

(for a wider list of blogs see Awesome .NET Performance by @SitnikAdam)

Special mention goes to Sasha Goldshtein, he's been blogging about this longer than anyone!!

• All Your Base Are Belong To Us by Sasha Goldshtein (@goldshtn)
  • Generic Method Dispatch
  • Inspecting Local Root Lifetime
  • Virtual Method Dispatch and Object Layout Changes in CLR 4.0
  • Runtime Representation of Generics—Part 2
  • Revisiting Value Types vs. Reference Types

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• Dissecting the code by Sergey Teplyakov (@STeplyakov) (M/S)
  • Garbage collection and variable lifetime tracking
  • Managed object internals, Part 1. The layout (Also part 2, part 3 and part 4)
  • To box or not to Box? That is the question!
  • Dissecting the new() constraint in C#: a perfect example of a leaky abstraction
• Adam Sitnik - .NET Performance and Reliability by Adam Sitnik (@SitnikAdam) (M/S)
  • Value Types vs Reference Types
  • Span
  • Pooling large arrays with ArrayPool
  • Collecting Hardware Performance Counters with BenchmarkDotNet
  • Disassembling .NET Code with BenchmarkDotNet
• Andrey Akinshin's blog by Andrey Akinshin (@andrey_akinshin)
  • Measuring Performance Improvements in .NET Core with BenchmarkDotNet (Part 1)
  • Blittable types
  • DateTime under the hood
  • Stopwatch under the hood
• TooSlowException by Konrad Kokosa (@konradkokosa)
  • .NET Core – compilation, running, debugging
  • How does Object.GetType() really work?
  • Zero Garbage Collector for .NET Core
  • The Ultimate .NET Experiment – open source project
• a little bit of programming by Marcin Juraszek (@mmjuraszek) (M/S)
  • String.Split and int[] allocations
  • Adding Matt operator to Roslyn - Syntax, Lexer and Parser (Part 2 - Binder, Part 3 - Emitter)
• yizhang82's blog by Yi Zhang (@yizhang82) (M/S)
  • Sharing .NET generic code under the hood
  • C# value type boxing under the hood
  • Embedding CoreCLR in your C/C++ application
• Timur Guev's posts on {coding}Sight by Timur Guev (@timyrik200), also appears to have his own blog Math and Programming (in Russian)
  • The origin of GetHashCode in .NET
  • Aspects of Strings in .NET
  • StringBuilder: the Past and the Future
• The mole is digging by Alexandr Nikitin (@nikitin_a_a)
  • .NET Generics under the hood
  • Hoisting in .NET Explained
  • Hoisting in .NET Examples
• My Coding Place by Dudi Keleti (@dudi_ke)
  • Object header get complicated
  • IL Call Vs. Callvirt Instruction (Part 2)
  • Value type methods – call, callvirt, constrained and hidden boxing
• Alexandre Mutel's blog by Alexandre Mutel (@xoofx)
  • A new stackalloc operator for reference types with CoreCLR and Roslyn
  • Struct inheritance in C# with CoreCLR and Roslyn