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Apps and Services with .NET 7
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Apps and Services with .NET 7

by Mark J. Price
November 2022
Intermediate to advanced
814 pages
18h 52m
English
Packt Publishing
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Benchmarking Performance, Multitasking, and Concurrency

This chapter is about allowing multiple actions to occur at the same time to improve performance, scalability, and user productivity for the applications that you build.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Understanding processes, threads, and tasks
  • Monitoring performance and resource usage
  • Running tasks asynchronously
  • Synchronizing access to shared resources
  • Understanding async and await

Understanding processes, threads, and tasks

A process, with one example being each of the console applications we have created, has resources like memory and threads allocated to it.

A thread executes your code, statement by statement. By default, each process only has one thread, ...

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