deep-dive-blog-posts.md
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List of blog posts that provide a 'deep-dive' into the CoreCLR source code
Posts that take a high-level overview of releases
- Corestart 2.0: What's new for performance in .NET Core 2.0
- Performance improvements in .NET Core 2.0
- Performance improvements in .NET Core 2.1
- Performance improvements in .NET Core 3.0
- Performance improvements in .NET 5
Posts that take a high-level look at the entire source:
- A Hitchhikers Guide to the CoreCLR Source Code
- The 68 things the CLR does before executing a single line of your code
- Research papers in the .NET source
Posts that reference specific parts of the source:
- A look at the internals of 'boxing' in the CLR
- Memory Usage Inside the CLR
- How the .NET Runtime loads a Type
- Adding a new Bytecode Instruction to the CLR
- Arrays and the CLR - a Very Special Relationship
- The CLR Thread Pool 'Thread Injection' Algorithm
- The .NET IL Interpreter
- How do .NET delegates work?
- Why is reflection slow?
- Preventing .NET Garbage Collections with the TryStartNoGCRegion API
- GC Pauses and Safe Points
- Strings and the CLR - a Special Relationship