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A debate has been going on at work about using Convert.ChangeType. A couple of fundamental assumptions to this discussion are delineated below: 1. The discussion is within the context of web ...

I am working in a .Net, C# shop and I have a coworker that keeps insisting that we should use giant Switch statements in our code with lots of "Cases" rather than more object oriented approaches. His ...

There seems to be rough equivalents of instructions to equate to the cost of a branch miss virtual functions have a similar tradeoff: instruction vs. data cache miss optimization barrier If you ...

How can I write functions that are reusable without sacrificing performance? I am repeatedly coming up against the situation where I want to write a function in a way that makes it reusable (e.g. it ...

Occasionally there is the 1% of code that is computationally intensive enough that needs the heaviest kind of low-level optimization. Examples are video processing, image processing, and all kinds of ...

So I was recently given a coding assignment from a large financial firm, and I thought of two ways to solve the problem. One of the ways involved 1 outer for loop and 1 inner for loop. In this case, ...

Say that I have the following situation: void myFunc() { int x; //Do something with x } "x" is placed on the stack which is no doubt fast. Now, "myFunc" is called very frequently, lets say ...

In our code base, I see a lot of code like this var error = ValidatePhoneNumber(userId, phoneNumber); //if validation fails, return error if(!string.IsNullOrEmpty(error)) { return error; } If I ...

In general, the more concise & flexible a language is the slower is the execution of programs written in this language. on the other side, the fast languages are mostly overly verbose, requiring ...

Is code that runs fast but written with a bad and hard to understand syntax, good code? Is code that runs slowly but written with a good and easy to understand syntax, good code?

Formatting with Indentations, White spaces, and New Lines obviously fit into the coding style category. if (a == b) { foo(); } // vs if (a == b) { foo(); } On the other hand, something ...