2020 - 2 in Total

March

• Analysing .NET start-up time with Flamegraphs

February

• Under the hood of "Default Interface Methods"

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2019 - 5 in Total

October

• Research based on the .NET Runtime

September

• "Stubs" in the .NET Runtime

April

• ASCII Art in .NET Code

March

• Is C# a low-level language?

January

• "Stack Walking" in the .NET Runtime

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2018 - 13 in Total

December

• Exploring the .NET Core Runtime (in which I set myself a challenge)
• Open Source .NET – 4 years later

October

• A History of .NET Runtimes

August

• Fuzzing the .NET JIT Compiler
• Monitoring and Observability in the .NET Runtime

July

• Presentations and Talks covering '.NET Internals'
• .NET JIT and CLR - Joined at the Hip

June

• Tools for Exploring .NET Internals
• CoreRT - A .NET Runtime for AOT

April

• Taking a look at the ECMA-335 Standard for .NET

March

• Exploring the internals of the .NET Runtime
• How generics were added to .NET

January

• Resources for Learning about .NET Internals

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2017 - 20 in Total

December

• A look back at 2017
• Open Source .NET – 3 years later
• A look at the internals of 'Tiered JIT Compilation' in .NET Core

November

• Exploring the BBC micro:bit Software Stack
• Microsoft & Open Source a 'Brave New World' - CORESTART 2.0
• A DoS Attack against the C# Compiler

October

• DotNetAnywhere: An Alternative .NET Runtime
• Analysing C# code on GitHub with BigQuery

August

• A look at the internals of 'boxing' in the CLR

July

• Memory Usage Inside the CLR

June

• How the .NET Runtime loads a Type

May

• Lowering in the C# Compiler (and what happens when you misuse it)
• Adding a new Bytecode Instruction to the CLR
• Arrays and the CLR - a Very Special Relationship

April

• The CLR Thread Pool 'Thread Injection' Algorithm

March

• The .NET IL Interpreter
• A Hitchhikers Guide to the CoreCLR Source Code

February

• The 68 things the CLR does before executing a single line of your code (*)

January

• How do .NET delegates work?
• Analysing Pause times in the .NET GC

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2016 - 23 in Total

December

• Why Exceptions should be Exceptional
• Why is reflection slow?
• Research papers in the .NET source

November

• Open Source .NET – 2 years later

October

• How does the 'fixed' keyword work?
• Adding a verb to the dotnet CLI tooling

September

• Optimising LINQ
• Compact strings in the CLR
• Subverting .NET Type Safety with 'System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe'
• Analysing .NET Memory Dumps with CLR MD

August

• Analysing Optimisations in the Wire Serialiser
• Preventing .NET Garbage Collections with the TryStartNoGCRegion API
• GC Pauses and Safe Points

July

• How the dotnet CLI tooling runs your code

June

• Visualising the .NET Garbage Collector

May

• Strings and the CLR - a Special Relationship
• Adventures in Benchmarking - Performance Golf

March

• Coz: Finding Code that Counts with Causal Profiling - An Introduction
• Adventures in Benchmarking - Method Inlining

February

• Adventures in Benchmarking - Memory Allocations
• Technically Speaking - Anniversary Mentoring
• Learning How Garbage Collectors Work - Part 1

January

• Open Source .NET – 1 year later - Now with ASP.NET

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2015 - 3 in Total

December

• Open Source .NET – 1 year later

October

• The Stack Overflow Tag Engine – Part 3

August

• The Stack Overflow Tag Engine – Part 2

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2014 - 10 in Total

November

• The Stack Overflow Tag Engine – Part 1

September

• The Art of Benchmarking (Updated 2014-09-23)
• Stack Overflow - performance lessons (part 2)
• Stack Overflow - performance lessons (part 1)

August

• How to mock sealed classes and static methods

July

• Know thy .NET object memory layout (Updated 2014-09-03)

June

• Measuring the impact of the .NET Garbage Collector - An Update
• Measuring the impact of the .NET Garbage Collector
• Roslyn code base - performance lessons (part 2)
• Roslyn code base - performance lessons (part 1)