This course will help you speed up your C# code and provides many tricks that every professional developer must know.
InstructorMark FarragherThe curriculum explores deep technical topics including Common Intermediate Language (CIL), garbage collection assumptions, and the use of pointers.
Frequent quizzes are integrated into the curriculum to validate understanding of core concepts like the Stack, Heap, and value versus reference types.
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These 3 complementary views highlight concrete, legible examples from the course presentation.
This diagram illustrates the .NET Runtime Foundation by visualizing memory allocation on the Stack versus the Heap, including specific overhead calculations for a list of PointClass objects.
This screen capture displays the Common Intermediate Language (CIL) output within a Visual Studio editor, showing low-level instructions like ldarg and callvirt for performance analysis.
The presenter outlines the course structure, noting it is four hours long with numerous lectures and quizzes included.
One signal from 2023 suggests that the course's performance benchmarks may lack the precision found in modern tools like BenchmarkDotNet; while the course was updated in 2026, this label does not prove a correction has been made.
The initial stages of the course may feel slow to some learners before reaching the core optimization content.
The curriculum aligns with the stated goals of targeting developers interested in performance and .NET internals.