Powerful benchmarking in .NET

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Explains how BenchmarkDotNet implements robust micro-benchmarking for .NET, describing the problems it addresses (accurate measurement, benchmarking pitfalls) and detailing its features, advantages and limitations. Covers why leading .NET performance experts rely on BenchmarkDotNet and how the library works under the hood.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:54Why performance is important?
3. 2:17Benchmark? Profiler?
4. 2:56The Contributors
5. 4:16Sample Results
6. 4:32Statistics
7. 5:10Multimodal distribution
8. 5:26Histogram
9. 5:45Expectation and reality
10. 6:05Outliers
11. 6:15Frequency trails
12. 6:25RPlot Sample
13. 7:01Exporters
14. 7:34BenchmarkSwitcher
15. 9:01How does it work?
16. 9:37Jitting
17. 10:29Pilot stage - perfect invocation count
18. 11:25Result = (Result + Overhead) - Overhead
19. 11:48The Overhead
20. 12:44The difference
21. 12:59Warmup stage
22. 14:00Actual Workload
23. 15:04The trap
24. 16:20Setup & Cleanup public class SetupidcleanupExample
25. 17:15Strategies
26. 18:21Stages: Summary
27. 19:04Inlining
28. 20:00How to minimize loop overhead?
29. 20:27How to prevent from Out-of-order execution?
30. 20:55Consumer
31. 21:32Why Process-level Isolation?
32. 23:13Run benchmark for all JITS
33. 25:00Different GC modes
34. 25:47Validators
35. 26:26Compare frameworks
36. 27:07NET Core vs .NET vs Mono vs CoreRT
37. 27:59runtimes
38. 28:31Architecture: Summary
39. 30:08Memory Diagnoser sample
40. 30:26Memory Diagnoser results
41. 32:10Hardware Performance Counters
42. 32:39Hardware Counters Sample
43. 33:33Harware Counters Result
44. 37:12Disassembly Diagnoser: Sample
45. 38:02Sample HTML report
46. 38:23ASM diffs
47. 39:20PMC + ASM = skids
48. 40:09ETW Profiler
49. 41:45Concurrency Visualizer Profiler
50. 43:18Diagnosers: Summary

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