✅ Optimizing `HTTPClient.GetAsync()` and large strings
I am writing a client application that consumes a web API at a near real-time rate (100ms). I am using
Then, I deserialize it with
Because this is done every 100ms, it's creating a large number of GC (short, but frequent) creating some pretty bad GC pressure. This is on the count of ~10 ~5ms GCs/s. Unfortunately, this can dramatically slow down execution, especially since GCs block all threads, including GUI.
I assume there are strategies to mitigate and solve this, this has to be a solved problem. Unfortunately, I'm not finding reliable/updated answers in google (the most common answer is... don't use C#).
httpClient.GetAsync() to retrieve the content and then I grab the string contents with Content.ReadAsStringAsync(). Then, I deserialize it with
JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<T>() to a format I expect (in some cases (out of my control), it's impossible to directly deserialize, in which case I deserialize to dynamic to parse manually). Because this is done every 100ms, it's creating a large number of GC (short, but frequent) creating some pretty bad GC pressure. This is on the count of ~10 ~5ms GCs/s. Unfortunately, this can dramatically slow down execution, especially since GCs block all threads, including GUI.
I assume there are strategies to mitigate and solve this, this has to be a solved problem. Unfortunately, I'm not finding reliable/updated answers in google (the most common answer is... don't use C#).
