Download / Listen: Herding Code 229: Matt Warren on .NET Internals and Open Source Contributions

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The guys talked to Matt Warren about his recent blog posts on .NET open source and open source contributions.

• (00:20) How Matt goes about writing his in-depth blog posts
• (03:15) Arrays and the CLR – a Very Special Relationship
• (07:00) The Book of the Runtime
• (11:00) Span to allow high performance array and string manipulation
• (16:07) Memory Usage Inside the CLR
• (20:06) A look at the internals of ‘boxing’ in the CLR
• (24:40) Intel hardware intrinsic functions (SSE, AVX, POPCNT, etc.)
• (25:50) A look at the internals of ‘Tiered JIT Compilation’ in .NET Core
• (35:00) A DoS Attack against the C# Compiler
• (40:00) How much the cross-platform aspects of .NET are apparent in the .NET platform code
• (43:40) Analysing C# code on GitHub with BigQuery
• (51:35) Open Source .NET – 3 years later