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2020 - 2 in Total

• Analysing .NET start-up time with Flamegraphs
• Under the hood of "Default Interface Methods"

2019 - 5 in Total

• Research based on the .NET Runtime
• "Stubs" in the .NET Runtime
• ASCII Art in .NET Code
• Is C# a low-level language?
• "Stack Walking" in the .NET Runtime

2018 - 13 in Total

• Exploring the .NET Core Runtime (in which I set myself a challenge)
• Open Source .NET – 4 years later
• A History of .NET Runtimes
• Fuzzing the .NET JIT Compiler
• Monitoring and Observability in the .NET Runtime
• Presentations and Talks covering '.NET Internals'
• .NET JIT and CLR - Joined at the Hip
• Tools for Exploring .NET Internals
• CoreRT - A .NET Runtime for AOT
• Taking a look at the ECMA-335 Standard for .NET
• Exploring the internals of the .NET Runtime
• How generics were added to .NET
• Resources for Learning about .NET Internals

2017 - 20 in Total

• A look back at 2017
• Open Source .NET – 3 years later
• A look at the internals of 'Tiered JIT Compilation' in .NET Core
• Exploring the BBC micro:bit Software Stack
• Microsoft & Open Source a 'Brave New World' - CORESTART 2.0
• A DoS Attack against the C# Compiler
• DotNetAnywhere: An Alternative .NET Runtime
• Analysing C# code on GitHub with BigQuery
• A look at the internals of 'boxing' in the CLR
• Memory Usage Inside the CLR
• How the .NET Runtime loads a Type
• 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
• The CLR Thread Pool 'Thread Injection' Algorithm
• The .NET IL Interpreter
• A Hitchhikers Guide to the CoreCLR Source Code
• The 68 things the CLR does before executing a single line of your code (*)
• How do .NET delegates work?
• Analysing Pause times in the .NET GC

2016 - 23 in Total

• Why Exceptions should be Exceptional
• Why is reflection slow?
• Research papers in the .NET source
• Open Source .NET – 2 years later
• How does the 'fixed' keyword work?
• Adding a verb to the dotnet CLI tooling
• Optimising LINQ
• Compact strings in the CLR
• Subverting .NET Type Safety with 'System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe'
• Analysing .NET Memory Dumps with CLR MD
• Analysing Optimisations in the Wire Serialiser
• Preventing .NET Garbage Collections with the TryStartNoGCRegion API
• GC Pauses and Safe Points
• How the dotnet CLI tooling runs your code
• Visualising the .NET Garbage Collector
• Strings and the CLR - a Special Relationship
• Adventures in Benchmarking - Performance Golf
• Coz: Finding Code that Counts with Causal Profiling - An Introduction
• Adventures in Benchmarking - Method Inlining
• Adventures in Benchmarking - Memory Allocations
• Technically Speaking - Anniversary Mentoring
• Learning How Garbage Collectors Work - Part 1
• Open Source .NET – 1 year later - Now with ASP.NET

2015 - 3 in Total

• Open Source .NET – 1 year later
• The Stack Overflow Tag Engine – Part 3
• The Stack Overflow Tag Engine – Part 2

2014 - 10 in Total

• The Stack Overflow Tag Engine – Part 1
• The Art of Benchmarking (Updated 2014-09-23)
• Stack Overflow - performance lessons (part 2)
• Stack Overflow - performance lessons (part 1)
• How to mock sealed classes and static methods
• Know thy .NET object memory layout (Updated 2014-09-03)
• 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)