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Monday, September 25, 2006 1:58 PM

The True Cost of .NET Exceptions -- Solution

Well, once again my elite readers have made a solution posting by me nearly redundant. There were many good viewpoints in response to my article including some especially excellent comments that were spot on. Now there are several things worth saying,
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Thursday, September 14, 2006 1:41 PM

The True Cost of .NET Exceptions

Here's an article under Jon's Homepage that was just brought to my attention. It's an interesting analysis of (approximately) the raw cost of throwing an exception. Jon is definately right on that 200 exceptions per hour isn't gonna hurt anything. However,
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Thursday, September 07, 2006 2:52 PM

Performance Quiz #11: Ten Questions on Value-Based Programming : Solution

In my last quiz I asked a few questions about a few hypothetical classes that might appear in a value-rich context. I styled my example in the form of some graphics library classes but the idea is a general one. Many contexts can and should be rich in
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Wednesday, September 06, 2006 12:57 AM

NameValueCollection vs. Hashtable performance considerations

We had a good discussion on the NameValueCollection internally not too long ago and I asked my friends on the BCL Team to post a summary of the things that were discussed. Kim Hamilton delivered and how. Great tidbits like: For example, when doing 40,000
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