Writing High-Performance .NET Code

I have not read the whole book (well it's nearly 500 pages of rather technical material, so reward my honesty here), but I have browsed through much of it, and read some stuff in detail already, and I like the book a lot, because the author clearly knows his stuff, he writes readably, and he has picked topics you will want to understand. If you develop for .NET (and I hope you will as it hits a sweet spot of rapid development, usability, performance and interoperability), this is the best book yet when you want to write ode that is not only correct but performant. It's written primarily for people who have a deep understanding of computer science, but less informed readers should get value from it, and they will likely learn a lot. (I consider myself a very experienced software developer and data scientist.)

I've had the first edition for a while and loved it. I saw that the 2nd edition was out which included new and expanded information for .NET Core. Ben Watson truly is an expert and does a phenomenal job at explaining why and how to get the most performance out of your .NET applications.If you care about performance then this book is for you. If you're only mildly interested I would still highly recommend this book.

For every serious programmer or software engineer this should be a MUST read. Highly recommended.

Really well written and filled with different ways to work with high performance .NET code in different scenarios. Not everything will apply to every application, but it will be good to keep around as a reference for when the scenarios crop up.The early chapters get really low level and are going to take me some time to re-read to fully understand it all. But overall it was really helpful.

I enjoyed reading this book because it unveiled, in easy to understand terms, some of the considerations to writing better performing code.

Excellent book, programming .net from past decade, feel like I knew nothing.

Very helpful guide, especially the PerfView section is very interesting.

Great content, learned a bunch of things I can apply directly in my day job

I am a voracious reader of tech books, and have found over the years that the quality of tech books has been in decline. Only occasionally does a book comes along that I reach the end of and find that I have a list of action points for my own codebase as a result. Even less often do I get to the end and find that I don’t have a list of errors to report. Well, “Writing High-Performance .NET Code” by Ben Watson is one of those books (the first one for a while) – multiple action points and no errors. It’s well written, and has been well proofread.Clearly written by somebody who not only knows his subject, but is also still hands-on in his area of expertise, this book is a mine of information. As somebody who has been called in as a consultant to provide detailed reports on how to speed up legacy systems, this feels like the more detailed version (460+ pages) of what I have previously produced as reports for clients (60-100 pages). Within that detail, Ben Watson has included a reasonable amount of information that I did not previously know, so very useful for me.I recommend this book, whether for performance-geeks like me, for anybody who needs to build a performant .Net application, or for anybody working in a .Net development team.

Quizás la mejor referencia sobre el tema que hay, y desde luego la mejor compra en kindle sobre el tema por ese precio. Un libro tanto para leer de tapa a tapa y adquirir conocimiento, como para referencia exhaustiva de determinados temas cuando toca batallar con cuestiones de rendimiento en escenarios reales.

Conteúdo bem rico e didático.Indispensável para programadores que almejam alcançar um nível mais sofisticado em programacao. Cobre as principais áreas que afetam a performance de um software.

The book has Excellent tecnhiques to get performance in .net Code and tools to see it.

Fantastic work! It's a must have for every dot net developer. Very detailed. The memory management chapter is really valuable.