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Rico's Talk from Gamefest

While the slides and recordings from Gamefest are not yet available on the conference website, Rico Mariani has posted an article on his Performance Tidbits blog:

It's basically a copy of his slides and notes from his Gamefest talk of the same name. If you're concerned about performance and memory management issues in .NET you'll definately want to check it out.

With respect to XNA, remember that the desktop will use the full .NET runtime, whereas code running on the 360 will be using a variant of the Compact Framework. Rico talks about the how the garbage collector differs between these two models.

If you're looking for more information on this, some of Rico's earlier articles will be of interest

In addition, Steven Pratschner has a series of interesting articles that talk about memory management in the compact framework:

Enjoy!