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Re:.NET Core gRPC by SideburnsOfDoom on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @03:34AM (#21057460)
I expect that it uses Pipelines ( * ) which is a new high-performance design using Span<T> and related classes inside, and these are new, are not in netstandard2.0.

Moving data onto and off the network efficiently is (one of) the things that Span<T> was created for.

*) https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/system-io-pipelines-hi...

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Re:.NET Core gRPC by legulere on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @06:19AM (#21058339)
Pipelines can also be used with much older frameworks: https://www.nuget.org/packages/System.IO.Pipelines/
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Re:.NET Core gRPC by SideburnsOfDoom on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @09:19AM (#21059808)
it can, but then it uses the less-performant shims of Span<T> and company in https://www.nuget.org/packages/System.Memory/
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