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Effective .NET Memory Management

Effective .NET Memory Management

By : Trevoir Williams
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Effective .NET Memory Management

Effective .NET Memory Management

4.8 (11)
By: Trevoir Williams

Overview of this book

In today’s software development landscape, efficient memory management is crucial for ensuring application performance and scalability. Effective .NET Memory Management addresses this need by explaining the intricacies of memory utilization within .NET Core apps, from fundamental concepts to advanced optimization techniques. Starting with an overview of memory management basics, you’ll quickly go through .NET’s garbage collection system. You’ll grasp the mechanics of memory allocation and gain insights into the distinctions between stack and heap memory and the nuances of value types and reference types. Building on this foundation, this book will help you apply practical strategies to address real-world app demands, spanning profiling memory usage, spotting memory leaks, and diagnosing performance bottlenecks, through clear explanations and hands-on examples. This book goes beyond theory, detailing actionable techniques to optimize data structures, minimize memory fragmentation, and streamline memory access in scenarios involving multithreading and asynchronous programming for creating responsive and resource-efficient apps that can scale without sacrificing performance. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained the knowledge to write clean, efficient code that maximizes memory usage and boosts app performance.
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Chapter 9: Final Thoughts

Summary

This chapter explored the fundamental concepts of memory management in computer systems. Memory management is critical for OSs efficiently utilizing a computer’s memory resources.

We discussed memory hierarchy, which consists of various levels of memory, from registers and cache to RAM and storage devices. Understanding this hierarchy is essential for optimizing memory usage. We then reviewed how memory is allocated to different processes or programs running on a computer, allocation strategies, and their implications on system performance.

We also reviewed a popular memory management technique in garbage collection and how it works in .NET. Garbage collection automatically identifies and frees up unused objects or data memory and excuses the developer from writing manual memory management logic. This behavior also reduces memory overhead and improves overall application performance.

This chapter provided a comprehensive overview of memory management in computer systems, emphasizing its importance in ensuring efficient resource utilization, process isolation, and system reliability. It sets the foundation for understanding the intricacies of memory management in modern OSs.

Next, we look at garbage collection in more depth and see how objects are handled.

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