In a .NET application, memory and performance are very much linked. Poor memory management can hurt performance in many ways. One such effect is called GC Pressure or Memory Pressure. GC Pressure (garbage collector pressure) is when the GC doesn’t keep up with memory deallocations. When the GC is pressured, it will spend more time garbage collecting, and these collections will come more frequently. When your app spends more time garbage collecting, it spends less time executing code, thus d...
