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A year ago, I published Performance Improvements in .NET 6 , following on the heels of similar posts for .NET 5 , .NET Core 3.0 , .NET Core 2.1 , and .NET Core 2.0 . I enjoy writing these posts and love reading developers’ responses to them. One comment in particular last year resonated with me. The commenter cited the Die Hard movie quote, “‘When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer’,” and questioned whether .NET performance improvements were similar. Has the well run dry? Are there no more “[performance] worlds to conquer”? I’m a bit giddy to say that, even with how fast .NET 6 is, .NET 7 definitively highlights how much more can be and has been done. As with previous versions of .NET, performance is a key focus that pervades the entire stack, whether it be features created explicitly for performance or non-performance-related features that are still designed and implemented with performance keenly in mind. And now that a .NET 7 r...