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 spe

Starving the Garbage Collector: A Pragmatic Guide to Zero-Allocation C#
Ian Cowley
