Learning .NET High-performance Programming

Memory management

When talking about memory management, any code programmer will remember how native languages opened their doors to any kind of issues and bottlenecks. This can also mean that the expert C++ programmer could have access to some customization to produce better memory management than CLR does. However, this relates only to very few people in very few cases.

Theoretically speaking, when a programmer needs to use some memory to store any value in an operation, they need to:

• Define a variable of the chosen type
• Allocate enough free memory to contain the variable:
  • Reserve some bytes in the operating system's memory stack to contain the variable
• Use the variable:
  • Instantiate the variable with the needed value
  • Do whatever is needed with such ...