High-Performance Text Processing
Explore techniques to improve text processing performance by using ReadOnlySpan and Span in C# to reduce memory allocations. This lesson teaches how to handle string slices without copying data, enabling faster and more efficient parsing of text in high-throughput .NET applications.
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Standard string operations like Substring(), Split(), or Replace() always create a completely new string object in memory. While convenient, frequent allocations increase memory pressure and trigger garbage collection (GC) overhead in high-throughput text processing applications.
Modern .NET provides Span<T> and ReadOnlySpan<T> to address these performance bottlenecks. These types allow you to work with a “window” or “slice” of existing data without copying it to a new location in memory. ...