Demo: Benchmarking Memory Copy
We run a memory copy benchmark and demonstrate that Array.CopyTo is much faster than the code that uses a manual loop. The lesson explains that CopyTo emits the undocumented IL memcpy instruction, allowing the JIT compiler to generate CPU-level block-copy instructions, and concludes that CopyTo should always be preferred over hand-written copy loops.
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Advanced Performance Optimizations
Delegates in C#
Demo: Benchmarking Delegates
Class Factories in C#
Instantiating with Dynamic Methods
Demo: Benchmarking Class Instantiation
Copying Blocks of Memory
Demo: Benchmarking Memory Copy
Caching in C#
Example: Calculating Fibonacci Numbers
Demo: Benchmarking Caching