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When I first started working on the GC, my predecessor was explaining the GC tuning to me. I told him that I thought it sounded like how I saw janitors work at food courts (I frequented food courts at the time 😀). And he concurred. What I said was if you observe at a food court, in order to be productive, the janitor tries to collect a sizable amo...

In November 2019, we announced .NET support for Jupyter notebooks with both C# and F# support. Today we are excited to announce Preview 2 of the .NET Notebook experience. Preview 2 includes C#, F#, and PowerShell support.

A customer asked me about analyzing perf related to GC handles. I feel like aside from pinned handles in general handles are not talked about much so this topic warrants some explanation, especially since this is a user facing feature. For some background info, GC handles are indeed generational so when we are doing ephemeral GCs we only need to s...