CLR via C# 4th Edition: Multicore Programming Insights

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"Microsoft Press CLR via C# 4th" 《Microsoft Press CLR via C# 4th》是著名编程专家Jeffrey Richter撰写的一本关于.NET Framework公共语言运行库（Common Language Runtime, CLR）的深度解析书籍，专注于C#语言的第四版。这本书提供了一个全面的多核编程的深入探讨，旨在帮助开发者深入了解.NET框架的底层机制和优化技巧。书中详细讲解了以下关键知识点： 1. CLR基础：介绍CLR作为.NET Framework的核心组成部分，如何管理和执行托管代码，包括垃圾回收、类型系统、异常处理以及安全性等方面的基础知识。 2. 多线程与并发：随着多核处理器的普及，多线程编程成为性能优化的关键。本书详细阐述了.NET中的线程管理、同步原语、并发模式以及任务并行库（TPL），帮助开发者在多核环境下编写高效的代码。 3. 动态编程与反射：解释了如何利用C#动态类型和System.Reflection API来实现运行时类型检查和代码生成，这对于插件架构和元编程至关重要。 4. 性能优化：探讨了如何通过理解CLR的工作原理来优化应用程序，包括内存管理、代码缓存、JIT编译器的工作方式以及如何避免性能瓶颈。 5. 自定义属性和元数据：深入解析.NET中的属性和元数据，这些在设计可扩展的框架和生成自定义工具时非常有用。 6. 异常处理：详细讲解了.NET异常处理机制，包括预定义异常类型、异常过滤和堆栈展开，以及如何编写健壮的异常处理代码。 7. 高级特性：涵盖了委托和事件、泛型、匿名方法和Lambda表达式，以及C# 4.0引入的动态类型和多目标版本支持。 8. 应用程序域（AppDomains）：介绍了如何使用应用程序域来隔离代码、实现安全性和资源管理，以及跨域通信。 9. 扩展性与插件：讨论了如何利用CLR的特性设计可扩展的应用程序，包括自定义加载器和托管代码的动态生成。 10. 并行计算：探讨了.NET Framework 4.0引入的并行计算框架，如Parallel LINQ (PLINQ) 和Task Parallel Library (TPL)，以及并发数据结构。请注意，由于这是一份预发布版本，书中内容可能尚未经过最终校对和修改，且可能引用了预发布版本的软件，因此在正式出版时，部分细节可能会有所变动。尽管如此，该文档仍提供了宝贵的早期见解，对于想要深入理解.NET Framework和C#的开发者来说，是一个不可多得的学习资源。

When Main makes its first call to WriteLine, the JITCompiler function is called. The

JITCompiler function is responsible for compiling a method’s IL code into native CPU instructions.

Because the IL is being compiled “just in time,” this component of the CLR is frequently referred to as a

JITter or a JIT compiler.

Note If the application is running on an x86 version of Windows or in WoW64, the JIT compiler

produces x86 instructions. If your application is running as a 64-bit application on an x64 version of

Windows, the JIT compiler produces x64 instructions. If the application is running on an ARM version

of Windows, the JIT compiler produces ARM instructions.

When called, the JITCompiler function knows what method is being called and what type defines

this method. The

JITCompiler function then searches the defining assembly’s metadata for the called

method’s IL. JITCompiler next verifies and compiles the IL code into native CPU instructions. The

native CPU instructions are saved in a dynamically allocated block of memory. Then,

JITCompiler

goes back to the entry for the called method in the type’s internal data structure created by the CLR

and replaces the reference that called it in the first place with the address of the block of memory

containing the native CPU instructions it just compiled. Finally, the

JITCompiler function jumps to

the code in the memory block. This code is the implementation of the

WriteLine method (the version

that takes a String parameter). When this code returns, it returns to the code in Main, which

continues execution as normal.

Main now calls WriteLine a second time. This time, the code for WriteLine has already been

verified and compiled. So the call goes directly to the block of memory, skipping the

JITCompiler

function entirely. After the

WriteLine method executes, it returns to Main. Figure 1-5 shows what the

process looks like when WriteLine is called the second time.

FIGURE 1-5 Calling a method for the second time.

A performance hit is incurred only the first time a method is called. All subsequent calls to the

method execute at the full speed of the native code because verification and compilation to native

code don’t need to be performed again.

The JIT compiler stores the native CPU instructions in dynamic memory. This means that the

compiled code is discarded when the application terminates. So if you run the application again in the

future or if you run two instances of the application simultaneously (in two different operating system

processes), the JIT compiler will have to compile the IL to native instructions again. Depending on the

application, this can increase memory consumption significantly compared to a native application

whose read-only code pages can be shared by all instances of the running application.

For most applications, the performance hit incurred by JIT compiling isn’t significant. Most

applications tend to call the same methods over and over again. These methods will take the

performance hit only once while the application executes. It’s also likely that more time is spent inside

the method than calling the method.

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Console.WriteLine(“Hello”);

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allocated in step 3.

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that it now points to the memory block allocated

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You should also be aware that the CLR’s JIT compiler optimizes the native code just as the back end

of an unmanaged C++ compiler does. Again, it may take more time to produce the optimized code,

but the code will execute with much better performance than if it hadn’t been optimized.

There are two C# compiler switches that impact code optimization:

/optimize and /debug. The

following table shows the impact these switches have on the quality of the IL code generated by the

C# compiler and the quality of the native code generated by the JIT compiler:

Compiler Switch Settings C# IL Code Quality JIT Native Code Quality

/optimize- /debug-

(this is the default)

Unoptimized Optimized

/optimize- /debug(+/full/pdbonly) Unoptimized Unoptimized

/optimize+ /debug(-/+/full/pdbonly) Optimized Optimized

With /optimize-, the unoptimized IL code produced by the C# compiler contains many

no-operation (NOP) instructions and also branches that jump to the next line of code. These

instructions are emitted to enable the edit-and-continue feature of Visual Studio while debugging and

the extra instructions also make code easier to debug by allowing breakpoints to be set on control flow

instructions such as

for, while, do, if, else, try, catch, and finally statement blocks. When

producing optimized IL code, the C# compiler will remove these extraneous NOP and branch

instructions, making the code harder to single-step through in a debugger as control flow will be

optimized. Also, some function evaluations may not work when performed inside the debugger.

However, the IL code is smaller, making the resulting EXE/DLL file smaller, and the IL tends to be easier

to read for those of you (like me) who enjoy examining the IL to understand what the compiler is

producing.

Furthermore, the compiler produces a Program Database (PDB) file only if you specify the

/debug(+/full/pdbonly) switch. The PDB file helps the debugger find local variables and map the IL

instructions to source code. The

/debug:full switch tells the JIT compiler that you intend to debug

the assembly, and the JIT compiler will track what native code came from each IL instruction. This

allows you to use the just-in-time debugger feature of Visual Studio to connect a debugger to an

already-running process and debug the code easily. Without the

/debug:full switch, the JIT compiler

does not, by default, track the IL to native code information which makes the JIT compiler run a little

faster and also uses a little less memory. If you start a process with the Visual Studio debugger, it forces

the JIT compiler to track the IL to native code information (regardless of the

/debug switch) unless you

turn off the Suppress JIT Optimization On Module Load (Managed Only) option in Visual Studio.

When you create a new C# project in Visual Studio, the Debug configuration of the project has

/optimize- and /debug:full switches, and the Release configuration has /optimize+ and

/debug:pdbonly switches specified.

For those developers coming from an unmanaged C or C++ background, you’re probably thinking

about the performance ramifications of all this. After all, unmanaged code is compiled for a specific

CPU platform, and, when invoked, the code can simply execute. In this managed environment,

compiling the code is accomplished in two phases. First, the compiler passes over the source code,

doing as much work as possible in producing IL. But to execute the code, the IL itself must be compiled

into native CPU instructions at runtime, requiring more non-shareable memory to be allocated and

requiring additional CPU time to do the work.

Believe me, since I approached the CLR from a C/C++ background myself, I was quite skeptical and

concerned about this additional overhead. The truth is that this second compilation stage that occurs

at runtime does hurt performance, and it does allocate dynamic memory. However, Microsoft has done

a lot of performance work to keep this additional overhead to a minimum.

If you too are skeptical, you should certainly build some applications and test the performance for

yourself. In addition, you should run some nontrivial managed applications Microsoft or others have

produced, and measure their performance. I think you’ll be surprised at how good the performance

actually is.

You’ll probably find this hard to believe, but many people (including me) think that managed

applications could actually outperform unmanaged applications. There are many reasons to believe

this. For example, when the JIT compiler compiles the IL code into native code at runtime, the compiler

knows more about the execution environment than an unmanaged compiler would know. Here are

some ways that managed code can outperform unmanaged code:

• A JIT compiler can determine if the application is running on an Intel Pentium 4 CPU and

produce native code that takes advantage of any special instructions offered by the Pentium 4.

Usually, unmanaged applications are compiled for the lowest-common-denominator CPU and

avoid using special instructions that would give the application a performance boost.

• A JIT compiler can determine when a certain test is always false on the machine that it is

running on. For example, consider a method that contains the following code:

if (numberOfCPUs > 1) {

...

}

This code could cause the JIT compiler to not generate any CPU instructions if the host

machine has only one CPU. In this case, the native code would be fine-tuned for the host

machine; the resulting code is smaller and executes faster.

• The CLR could profile the code’s execution and recompile the IL into native code while the

application runs. The recompiled code could be reorganized to reduce incorrect branch

predictions depending on the observed execution patterns. Current versions of the CLR do not

do this, but future versions might.

These are only a few of the reasons why you should expect future managed code to execute better

than today’s unmanaged code. As I said, the performance is currently quite good for most applications,

and it promises to improve as time goes on.

If your experiments show that the CLR’s JIT compiler doesn’t offer your application the kind of

performance it requires, you may want to take advantage of the NGen.exe tool that ships with the .NET

Framework SDK. This tool compiles all of an assembly’s IL code into native code and saves the resulting

native code to a file on disk. At runtime, when an assembly is loaded, the CLR automatically checks to

see whether a precompiled version of the assembly also exists, and if it does, the CLR loads the

precompiled code so that no compilation is required at runtime. Note that NGen.exe must be

conservative about the assumptions it makes regarding the actual execution environment, and for this

reason, the code produced by NGen.exe will not be as highly optimized as the JIT compiler–produced

code. I’ll discuss NGen.exe in more detail later in this chapter.

In addition, you may want to consider using the

System.Runtime.ProfileOptimization class.

This class causes the CLR to record (to a file) what methods get JIT compiled while your application is

running. Then, on a future startup of your application, the JIT compiler will concurrently compile these

methods using other threads if your application is running on a machine with multiple CPUs. The end

result is that your application runs faster because multiple methods get compiled concurrently, and

during application initialization instead of compiling the methods just-in-time as the user is interacting

with your application.

IL and Verification

IL is stack-based, which means that all of its instructions push operands onto an execution stack and

pop results off the stack. Because IL offers no instructions to manipulate registers, it is easy for people

to create new languages and compilers that produce code targeting the CLR.

IL instructions are also typeless. For example, IL offers an

add instruction that adds the last two

operands pushed on the stack. There are no separate 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the

add instruction.

When the

add instruction executes, it determines the types of the operands on the stack and performs

the appropriate operation.

In my opinion, the biggest benefit of IL isn’t that it abstracts away the underlying CPU. The biggest

benefit IL provides is application robustness and security. While compiling IL into native CPU

instructions, the CLR performs a process called verification. Verification examines the high-level IL code

and ensures that everything the code does is safe. For example, verification checks that every method

is called with the correct number of parameters, that each parameter passed to every method is of the

correct type, that every method’s return value is used properly, that every method has a return

statement, and so on. The managed module’s metadata includes all of the method and type

information used by the verification process.

In Windows, each process has its own virtual address space. Separate address spaces are necessary

because you can’t trust an application’s code. It is entirely possible (and unfortunately, all too common)

that an application will read from or write to an invalid memory address. By placing each Windows

process in a separate address space, you gain robustness and stability; one process can’t adversely

affect another process.

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