#304 High-performance C#: a test pattern for ref structs
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High-performance C#: a test pattern for ref structs
C# 7.2 added support for ref struct types, and as I’ve discussed before, these are critical to achieving high throughput in certain kinds of code by minimizing GC overhead and copying. But you pay a price in flexibility. In that last article, I showed how to work around the fact that you cannot use a ref struct inside an async method. In this article I’ll discuss an issue we ran into when writing tests for the Ais.Net parser I recently blogged about.
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In practice, obviously I’ve exaggerated the ease with which a codebase can be made fully asynchronous, and as with many a software development task, the devil is often in the details. One such “devil” that performance-minded .NET developers are likely familiar with is the state machine object that enables an async method to perform its magic.
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