Human beings like categorizing things. Categories make things simpler, much easier to grasp. The same is applied to events when we assign them to a specific epoch or a period of our history. Can we use epochs in computer systems and programming? Would they be useful? Would they make things more complex or simpler? Let's … Continue reading Epoch based programming
Optimization
Thruster, building a not so fast memory pool
This post describes my work on trying to build a faster MemoryPool for .NET called Thruster. There are existing implementations, like the one provided by System.Memory or Kestrel, the new and shiny .NET web server. Let's see what approached did I take and how it ended. What is a MemoryPool? The memory pool is a … Continue reading Thruster, building a not so fast memory pool
Pearls: Jil, serialization of primitives
The last pearl of design that I covered was an implementation for the discriminated union in the probuf-net library. Now, it's time to move to an area that is less esoteric in terms of the format, but still intriguing in terms of performance. Time to take a look at the fastest JSON serializer available for … Continue reading Pearls: Jil, serialization of primitives
Pearls: the protobuf’s discriminated union
Google Protocol Buffers is a proven protocol for serializing data efficiently. It has a wide adoption, enabling serialization for almost every platform, making the data easy to exchange between platforms. To store its schema, you can use .proto files, that enable describing messages in a platform agnostic format. You can see an example below: message … Continue reading Pearls: the protobuf’s discriminated union
Performance matters
This is a follow-up post about Marten's performance. It shows that saved allocations are not only about allocations and memory. It's also about you CPU ticks, hence the speed of your library.
.NET volatile write performance degradation in x86
TL;DR This is a summary of my investigation about writing a fast and well designed concurrent queue for akka.net which performance was drastically low for 32bit application. Take a look at PR here. If you're interested in writing a well performing no-alloc applications with mechanical symapthy in mind or you're simply interested in good .NET … Continue reading .NET volatile write performance degradation in x86
Roslyn coding conventions applied
Roslyn is a 'compiler as a service' provided for both VisualBasic.NET & C#. It has a thriving community of people providing new features for .NET languages. One of the most important parts of this community is a guideline how to contribute, which defines basic rules for coding and issuing pull requests. The most important part, … Continue reading Roslyn coding conventions applied
