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2026-09-17 comparison flutter flutter-web

CanvasKit vs skwasm for Flutter web in 2026: which renderer should you ship?

Ship skwasm with flutter build web --wasm when your dependencies compile to Wasm: it downloads less and rendered 36% more frames than CanvasKit on a heavy scene. On Flutter 3.47.x, keep it single-threaded until the multi-threaded text crash fix leaves beta.

2026-09-16 dotnet dotnet-11 jit

The .NET 11 JIT Devirtualizes Generic Virtual Methods, and the Allocation Goes With Them

Stephen Toub's Performance Improvements in .NET 11 post shows generic virtual method calls dropping from 6.7 ns and 24 bytes to 1.8 ns and zero allocation. Three RyuJIT pull requests unlocked inlining on the dispatch that used to be the most opaque one in .NET.

2026-09-12 comparison csharp dotnet

Lookup<TKey, TElement> vs Dictionary<TKey, List<TValue>> for duplicate keys in C#

Use ToLookup when you group once and only read: it is immutable, returns an empty sequence for missing keys, accepts null keys and keeps first-seen order. Use Dictionary<TKey, List<TValue>> when the groups change after construction or cross a JSON boundary.

2026-09-07 dotnet dotnet-11 csharp

How to find the async void handlers causing ANRs in a .NET MAUI Android app

Play Console tells you your ANR rate is over 0.47% and hands you a native stack full of libcoreclr.so frames. Here is how to get from that useless trace to the exact async void event handler that blocked the main thread, using a Looper printer, a SynchronizationContext wrapper that names the state machine, and dotnet-trace over dsrouter.

2026-09-04 dotnet native-aot jit

What is the W^X flag in .NET and does Native AOT need it?

W^X (write xor execute) is the rule that no memory page is writable and executable at the same time. In .NET it is the DOTNET_EnableWriteXorExecute knob, on by default since .NET 7, and it exists entirely for the JIT. Native AOT never reads it. Here is how the runtime implements it, what it costs, and when turning it off is a legitimate fix.

2026-09-01 comparison csharp csharp-14

Returning a Task directly vs async/await passthrough in a C# repository method: which should you use?

Eliding async/await in a repository passthrough saves about 6 ns and 72 bytes, and costs you a stack frame, try/catch semantics, and safe disposal. Keep return await unless the method is a pure passthrough on a measured hot path.

2026-08-31 comparison automapper mapperly

AutoMapper vs Mapperly vs hand-written mapping in 2026

Mapperly is the default for new .NET code: it matches hand-written speed, survives Native AOT, and catches unmapped members at build time. AutoMapper still wins on ProjectTo. Benchmarks and license thresholds included.

2026-08-23 csharp linq dotnet

How to tell whether an IEnumerable<T> has already been materialized in C#

There is no HasBeenEnumerated flag on IEnumerable<T>. Here is what TryGetNonEnumeratedCount actually checks, why Enumerable.Range passes an ICollection<T> test, and the guard that avoids a wasted ToList().

2026-08-18 errors dotnet logging

Fix: CA1873 "Evaluation of this argument may be expensive and unnecessary if logging is disabled"

CA1873 fires on the implicit params object[] allocation, so almost every LogDebug call trips it. Fix it with [LoggerMessage] or an IsEnabled guard.

2026-08-15 comparison dotnet dotnet-11

Zstandard vs Brotli vs Gzip response compression in .NET 11

Zstandard is the right default for dynamic API responses in .NET 11, but not at the quality the ASP.NET Core provider ships with. Benchmarks on real JSON payloads showing why quality 1 beats the default quality 3 on both size and CPU, when Brotli still wins, and why Gzip survives only as a fallback.