Starving the Garbage Collector: A Pragmatic Guide to Zero-Allocation C# (opens in new tab)

Over the last few weeks, I’ve open-sourced a suite of high-performance, zero-dependency C# engines. This includes a native DataFrame library (Glacier.Polaris), a blistering fast text searcher (Glacier.Grep), and a semantic Markdown parser for RAG contexts (Glacier.DocTree). You can find the source code for all of these on my GitHub. A recurring question I’m getting from other devs looking at these repositories is simple: How exactly are you bypassing the Garbage Collector to get these speeds?...