[HN Gopher] .NET GC Internals mini-series
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       .NET GC Internals mini-series
        
       Author : GordonS
       Score  : 70 points
       Date   : 2021-01-22 20:39 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (tooslowexception.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (tooslowexception.com)
        
       | kyberias wrote:
       | How do I know this person really knows about .NET GC internals
       | for me to spend any time watching some videos?
        
         | ojnabieoot wrote:
         | You could make a similar argument about... any video, song,
         | essay, etc, created by anyone. So I'm not sure what the point
         | of your comment is. I think you are getting at the fact that
         | there's a lot of bad-faith grifters out there who prey on
         | entry-level devs. This is a legitimate concern! But in my
         | experience it's pretty easy to sniff those folks out with a
         | superficial investigation. You don't want to "spend any time"
         | watching the video but I think you can spend two minutes
         | skimming their other work, their CV, etc.
         | 
         | I myself didn't know anything about this person so I poked
         | through their blog a bit. They are clearly marketing their
         | education business (and I am not their target audience) but
         | also seem to know what they're talking about. More to the
         | point: their material appears to be sincerely helpful to
         | intermediate (and even advanced) NET devs. This relatively
         | short post on unsafe array access in C#[1] although not
         | especially deep, does at least dive into the runtime / IL
         | internals enough to give a clear picture of what the unsafe
         | code is actually doing.
         | 
         | I haven't watched the video either but they are creating good-
         | faith tutorials, they are obviously capable of understanding
         | the .NET GC, and there's no reason to suspect they would change
         | type and BS their way through a new video series.
         | 
         | [1] https://tooslowexception.com/getting-rid-of-array-bound-
         | chec...
        
         | Avalaxy wrote:
         | The author is MVP in .NET and author of the book Pro .NET
         | Memory Management.
        
           | jitbit wrote:
           | Yep, and this info is 2 clicks away, literally.
           | 
           | Select his name, right-click, "search in Google".
        
             | WalterGR wrote:
             | Or hamburger menu -> About.
        
         | bargl wrote:
         | While actually a good question, I am reading a bit of snark
         | here.
         | 
         | Don't spend your time on anything you don't want to, but if you
         | want to learn about .NET GC then either research the author or
         | research other deep dives into .NET GC.
         | 
         | To research the author you could.
         | 
         | Go to the About page on their blog...
         | 
         | You could also look them up in Stack Overflow.
         | https://stackoverflow.com/users/2894974/konrad-kokosa
         | 
         | You could watch the first 10 minutes where he addresses this.
        
         | PieUser wrote:
         | Faith.
        
         | jpfed wrote:
         | Not that this proves anything, but this author's twitter
         | account is followed by:
         | 
         | * David Fowler (ASP.NET Core creator)
         | 
         | * Andy Gocke (Lead developer for the CLR)
         | 
         | * Jared Parsons (Lead developer for C# Compiler team)
         | 
         | * Miguel de Icaza
         | 
         | Presumably if he wasn't saying anything worth listening to,
         | they would have unfollowed him by now.
        
           | 1f60c wrote:
           | > Miguel de Icaza
           | 
           | Miguel de Icaza is the creator of Gnome and Mono.
        
       | tester756 wrote:
       | Why .NET still has no interface for serious, custom GCs?
        
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