Exception Performance
In this lesson we explain what exceptions are, why throwing them is extremely slow in .NET, and when they should and should not be used. The lesson covers the rule that exceptions are for critical, unrecoverable failures only, not for data validation or normal control flow.
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A Crash Course In Intermediate Language
This Module
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
Lists and Arrays Performance Recap
Exception Performance
Parse versus TryParse