Performance Improvements in .NET 11 by Stephen Toub
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Stephen Toub's detailed .NET performance deep dives are praised as rare, technical writing that is not AI-generated filler. One critic found the style full of AI-model phrasing.
Stephen Toub's detailed .NET performance deep dives are praised as rare, technical writing that is not AI-generated filler. One critic found the style full of AI-model phrasing.
5 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
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Why people recommend it
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Deep, technical, non-AI-slop performance writing
“it is very rewarding to read something very technical that is not AI slop these days”
Comment from 15 Sep 2026 in “Performance Improvements in .NET 11” “Performance deep dives with this kind of quality are rare.”
Comment from 16 Sep 2026 in “Performance Improvements in .NET 11” “deep technical articles like this one as much as I do”
Comment from 17 Sep 2026 in “Performance Improvements in .NET 11”
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What people said
All 5 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“the style is so full of claudisms it's next to unbearable to read”
“what I really enjoyed was the reworked entry section”
“deep technical articles like this one as much as I do”
“Performance deep dives with this kind of quality are rare.”
“it is very rewarding to read something very technical that is not AI slop these days”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.