Learning .NET High-performance Programming

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "We can include other contexts through the use of the include directive."

A block of code is set as follows:

var previousTiming = GCSettings.LatencyMode;
try
{
    //switch to LowLatency mode
    GCSettings.LatencyMode = GCLatencyMode.LowLatency;

    //your code
    //never use large short-living objects here
}
finally
{
    GCSettings.LatencyMode = previousTiming;
}

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