Go deep into the details of writing high-performance .NET code, from big issues like garbage collection and JIT, to smaller important ones like interface dispatch, delegates, casting, code generation, and much more. See code samples and tool demos and have an opportunity to ask questions.

Key Takeaways

• Get to know the garbage collector at a very deep level, and the tradeoffs your applications must make to achieve extremely high efficiency.
• Learn how subtle code differences can drastically affect execution efficiency. 
• See what tools exist to help in development as well as in production.

.NET is a strong platform for developing applications of all types, and while it makes it easy to quickly write code, it also makes it easy to write poorly performing code if you don't understand detailed CLR behavior characteristics. As your performance expectations rise, so too must your willingness to dive into the system to understand it. This talk will give you a deep-dive introduction to what you need to know to squeeze out the ultimate performance from your .NET code, along with war stories from building the Bing platform query engine.