April NUNUG Meeting - High Performance C#

[Phil Gilmore]

NUNUG Meeting Announcement:
This message is to announce our upcoming meeting night for the Northern Utah .NET User Group.


Meeting Info:
Topic: High Performance C#
Presented by: Nate Zaugg
Date: Thursday, 2026-04-09
Time: 06:30PM


Abstract:
C# is not just productive, It is fast! Modern .NET has also become a serious platform for high-performance software. In this session, we will explore the language and runtime features that can dramatically change the performance profile of C# applications, including Span, Memory, memory pools, pipelines, UTF-8 processing, allocation avoidance, and other modern capabilities that help reduce overhead and push more work closer to the metal. 

We will look at the kinds of bottlenecks these tools solve, where they shine, and where they can be misused. Along the way, we will also compare C#'s performance with peer languages like Go, Java, and Rust, and discuss where .NET is surprisingly competitive, where it still lags, and why. We will also touch on Ahead-of-Time (AoT) compilation, profile-guided optimization, and how far the modern .NET toolchain can take C# when raw speed actually matters. This is a hybrid meeting! Join us in-person: Mindfire Office 872 W Heritage Park Blvd STE 200 Layton, UT Join us online (MS Teams): https://ift.tt/19Evfg2


Location:
This is a hybrid meeting!

Join us in-person:

Mindfire Office
872 W Heritage Park Blvd STE 200
Layton, UT

Join us online (MS Teams):
https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/27400068611107?p=VfAUB9L4fPC1y2odPl


Map:
http://bit.ly/NUNUG-Map


Calendar:
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Sponsors:
We'd like to give a shout-out to our active sponsorships which are contributing to this meeting:
Mindfire Technology
O'Reilly Media
OzCode
PostSharp


Other Announcements:

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Contact us!
We are always available and most responsive on our Slack channel.
Registration: https://nunug.slack.com/join/shared_invite/enQtNzA1MjcwOTg3MTcwLWY3YzI1MzQ4ZjQxYjc4NDdjZjc0YzgzNzdkOWQ0ZWU2MDNjNmMxYzgyMzMwNjYwMDFkMjY4NzA0M2Q2MzhjNTk
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[Phil Gilmore]

NUNUG Meeting Announcement:

Remember that tonight is meeting night for the Northern Utah .NET User Group!  Tonight's topic is a MUST-LEARN!  We hope you can attend!

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