Make Long-Lived Objects Large
The lesson shows how small objects that grow over time can end up being misclassified by the garbage collector, and explains how pre-sizing a list with an explicit capacity forces the runtime to allocate it directly on the large object heap, avoiding costly generation promotions.
Previous Module
The .NET Garbage Collector
This Module
Memory Performance Optimizations
Optimize GC for Gen:0
Avoid the Event Handler Memory Leak
Example: String Allocations in Gen:0
Demo: Tracking Gen:0 Allocations
Demo: Optimizing Gen:0 Allocations
Optimizing for Object Lifetime
Make Large Objects Long-Lived
Demo: Object Pooling (part 1)
Demo: Object Pooling (part 2)
Make Small Objects Short-Lived
Make Short-Lived Objects Small
Make Long-Lived Objects Large
Object Lifetime Recap
Structs versus Classes