Hosting- February 21, 2004 Hosting My prior three blogs were supposed to be on Hosting. Each time I got side tracked, first on Exceptions, then on Application Compatibility and finally on Finalization. I refuse to be side tracked this time&8230; much. Also, I need to explain why it&8217;s taken so long to get this blog out. Part of the reason is vacation. I spent Thanksgiving skiing in Whistler. Then I took a quick side trip to Scottsdale for a friend&8217;s surprise birthday..http://blogs.msdn.com/cbrumme/archive/2004/02/21/77595.aspx Finalization- February 21, 2004 Earlier this week, I wrote an internal email explaining how Finalization works in V1 V1.1, and how it has been changed for Whidbey. There&8217;s some information here that folks outside of Microsoft might be interested in. Costs Finalization is expensive. It has the following costs: 1) Creating a finalizable object is slower, because each such object must be placed on a RegisteredForFinalization queue. In some sense, this is a bit like.http://blogs.msdn.com/cbrumme/archive/2004/02/20/77460.aspx Apartments and Pumping in the CLR- February 2, 2004 I&8217;ve already written the much-delayed blog on Hosting, but I can&8217;t post it yet because it mentions a couple of new Whidbey features, which weren&8217;t present in the PDC bits. Obviously Microsoft doesn&8217;t want to make product disclosures through my random blog articles. I&8217;m hoping this will be sorted out in another week or two. While we&8217;re waiting, I thought I would talk briefly(!) about pumping and apartments. The CLR made some fundamental...http://blogs.msdn.com/cbrumme/archive/2004/02/02/66219.aspx |