Advanced Memory Management Techniques

Memory management is a cornerstone in .NET programming, underpinning application performance and stability. As developers, we often encounter complex scenarios that challenge our understanding of how memory is allocated, managed, and optimized, especially in modern applications that leverage concurrency and asynchrony.

This chapter delves into advanced memory management techniques within the .NET ecosystem, focusing on three critical areas:

• Concurrent memory management
• Memory usage in multi-threaded applications
• Memory management in asynchronous code

.NET provides several mechanisms to handle memory safely when multiple threads operate in parallel, which is increasingly common in today’s software landscape. We will examine the role of garbage collection in a concurrent environment, including the optimizations that .NET implements to minimize pause times and enhance throughput.

We will also explore memory usage...