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

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<T> 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