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Over the years, working on performance on .Net applications, I've found among the best ways to improve a .Net application performance is to reduce the GC collection pressure. This is the least obvious way to improve performance for most people because the GC is treated like a magic black box. Recent versions of .Net have made it so straightforward things that used to wreck havoc on memory (like LINQ) no longer do so (yielding good performance gains).