This chapter is somehow a continuation of the previous one, describing more advanced techniques that are available in .NET. Thus, please note that the knowledge from the previous chapter is really helpful to understand this one (especially regarding ref types, ref returns, and ref structs).
This chapter is aligned with today’s trends in .NET programming (at least those heavily performance-oriented) - squeezing all the possible CPU clock cycles and memory usage to make managed frameworks and applications faster. I found it really fascinating. More and more libraries and their APIs are being ...
