Microsoft has recently released “Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability.” The guide covers many of the .NET applications, such as ASP.Net, ADO.Net, XML, and others. But it also covers many topics relevant to XNA programming. Best of all, you can read it online or download it as a pdf.
In my first read, I found the first few sections, which cover general engineering practices regarding performance, good, but possibly a review for more experienced developers.
The good stuff starts in Chapter 5 “Improving Managed Code Performance.” Chapter 13, “Code Review: .NET Application Performance” is useful, and finally chapters 15-17 on measuring, testing and tuning, respectively contain good information.
So, while you can skip about 50% of the book, I do pretty much guarantee that you’ll learn something for the money you didn’t spend.
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