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High-Performance Programming in C# and .NET
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High-Performance Programming in C# and .NET

by Jason Alls
July 2022
Intermediate to advanced
660 pages
12h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 3: Predefined Data Types and Memory Allocations

In this chapter, you will learn about C# predefined (that is, built-in) data types and C# object types, along with the different types of memory allocations.

The most basic requirement for improving the performance of your application is to understand the predefined data types and their sizes. There may be times when the memory usage of your applications is critical. Knowing the size of data types and the values they hold can help you make accurate memory usage estimates, as do memory profiling tools such as dotTrace and dotMemory, which are developed by JetBrains. We will be discussing the use of dotTrace and dotMemory in the next chapter. It also makes sense to know the different types ...

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