Converting a List to an Array is a common operation: var listSource = new List<int> { 5, 7, 16, 3 }; int[] arrayDestination1 = listSource.ToArray(); // C# standard conversion int[] arrayDestination2 = listSource.ToArrayPar(); // HPCsharp parallel/multi-core/faster conversion This is convenient when calling some function, that only operates on Array, which is common in C#, since […]

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Adding two integers in C# can produce surprising results. For instance, int sum = 2147483647;    // Int32.MaxValue == 0x7FFFFFFF sum = sum + 1; The resulting sum is expected to be 2147483648, but is -2147483648 instead. uint sum = 4294967295;    // UInt32.MaxValue == 0xFFFFFFFF sum = sum + 1; The resulting sum is expected to […]

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C# Linq provides a convenient way to add up all of the array elements. var arr = new int[] { 5, 7, 16, 3 }; int arrSum = arr.Sum(); This .Sum() supports some of the built-in numeric types: int, long, float, double, and decimal. It provides a nicely consistent and convenient way of adding up […]

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In this blog I’ll assemble variety of resources for code performance optimization – from videos to blog posts to StackOverflow topics to university class instructions to books. I’ll update this post from time to time. Videos   Books Blogs Gallery of Processor Cache Effects  

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LSD Radix Sort algorithm has been around for a long time with first computer usage in 1950’s and 1960’s to sort punch cards by performing several passes at the stack of cards. It has resurfaced in the last decade with GPUs having hundreds and even thousands of processor with internal local truly random access memories […]

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