memory-playground

This is a playground project for experimenting with memory allocations, boxing, stacks, heaps, etc. There is a benchmarking project you can run benchmarks against.

dotnet run --project MemoryAllocations.Benchmarks.csproj -c Release

here are some outputs from previous runs:

Boxing

BenchmarkDotNet=v0.13.1, OS=macOS Monterey 12.3.1 (21E258) [Darwin 21.4.0]
Intel Core i7-8850H CPU 2.60GHz (Coffee Lake), 1 CPU, 12 logical and 6 physical cores
.NET SDK=6.0.100
  [Host]     : .NET 6.0.0 (6.0.21.52210), X64 RyuJIT
  DefaultJob : .NET 6.0.0 (6.0.21.52210), X64 RyuJIT

Method	Mean	Error	StdDev	Median	Gen 0	Allocated
Boxed	4.8096 ns	0.2118 ns	0.6211 ns	4.6317 ns	0.0051	24 B
UnBoxed	0.0176 ns	0.0189 ns	0.0147 ns	0.0225 ns	-	-

Camel Case

BenchmarkDotNet=v0.13.1, OS=macOS Monterey 12.3.1 (21E258) [Darwin 21.4.0]
Intel Core i7-8850H CPU 2.60GHz (Coffee Lake), 1 CPU, 12 logical and 6 physical cores
.NET SDK=6.0.100
  [Host]     : .NET 6.0.0 (6.0.21.52210), X64 RyuJIT
  DefaultJob : .NET 6.0.0 (6.0.21.52210), X64 RyuJIT

Method	Mean	Error	StdDev	Median	Gen 0	Allocated
StackAlloc	558.4 ns	11.14 ns	29.53 ns	547.1 ns	0.0334	160 B
Linq	1,328.7 ns	31.62 ns	91.24 ns	1,307.9 ns	0.3300	1,560 B

Dictionary

BenchmarkDotNet=v0.13.1, OS=macOS Monterey 12.3.1 (21E258) [Darwin 21.4.0]
Intel Core i7-8850H CPU 2.60GHz (Coffee Lake), 1 CPU, 12 logical and 6 physical cores
.NET SDK=6.0.100
  [Host]     : .NET 6.0.0 (6.0.21.52210), X64 RyuJIT
  DefaultJob : .NET 6.0.0 (6.0.21.52210), X64 RyuJIT

Method	Mean	Error	StdDev	Gen 0	Gen 1	Allocated
Benchmark_Bad	475.5 ns	4.77 ns	3.72 ns	0.2394	-	1 KB
Benchmark_Better	483.6 ns	9.49 ns	27.23 ns	0.2208	0.0005	1 KB
Benchmark_Best	476.4 ns	9.44 ns	18.64 ns	0.2203	-	1 KB