Demo: Benchmarking Boxing And Unboxing
The lesson shows the Benchmark.NET setup used to compare one million integer additions with and without boxing, explaining how the benchmark eliminates OS noise by enforcing high-performance mode and averaging many runs. We present the benchmark results showing that boxing makes the code more than ten times slower.
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Basic Performance Optimizations
Optimizing Boxing And Unboxing
Collection And Data Classes To Avoid
Demo: Benchmarking Boxing And Unboxing
String and StringBuilder Performance (part 1)
String and StringBuilder Performance (part 2)
Demo: Benchmarking String versus StringBuilder
List and Array Performance
Pre-sizing Lists
Demo: Benchmarking Lists and Arrays
Demo: Lists and Arrays in Intermediate Language