Applications making heavy use of System.Diagnostics.StackTrace or Exception.StackTrace might run more slowly on the .NET Framework 4.7.1
An application that had acceptable performance running on the .NET Framework 4.7 or earlier versions executes more slowly when running on the .NET Framework 4.7.1
The .NET Framework 4.7.1 added support for detecting and parsing the Portable PDB file format to show file and line number information in stack traces. As part of this change, each function in a stack trace has its defining module checked to determine if that module uses the Portable PDB format. Due to some differences in the internal caching policy, the runtime spends far more time searching for Portable PDBs than previous .NET Framework versions spent searching for classic Windows PDBs. This causes formatted stack traces to be produced more slowly than before.
The issue was originally reported here: #529
Call the System.Diagnostics.StackTrace.#ctor(Boolean) constructor with false argument to avoid capturing source information. This avoids the portion of the code where performance
regressed.
[09-Jan-2018] The fix for this issue is available as follows:
- For Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, see the update https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4058258/windows-10-update-kb4058258.
- For all other platforms, the fix for this issue is included in the Update for .NET Framework 4.7.1 - KB4054856.
This fix removes the Portable PDB functionality from 4.7.1. In .NET Framework 4.7.2, we anticipate having an improved fix available which both performs well and re-enables the portable PDB functionality.