Liran Chen's Blog

Garbage collection. Aye? or Nay? As usual, it depends. That is, on which developer you might ask. Some like to have as much control as poss...

When optimizing your code for performance, a quite important step in the way is to check that your application correctly utilizes its proces...

Using object pooling in managed environments can usually benefit us in two ways: Reducing the amount of time required to create "heav...

A while back I've mentioned in a post that calling DateTime.Now causes boxing. Following the posting, a feedback item was also posted ...

One of the most common design patterns in multithreaded programming is the producer-consumer. In the usual scenario, a consumer thread is sp...

Even though the negative consequences of combining Nagle's Algorithm with Delayed ACKs when using TCP is well documented in the literatu...

One of the most hidden knowledge in multithreaded programming is the question "How many threads I should use in my application to achie...