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AwkwardCoder
AwkwardCoder

Reputation: 25631

What does Task Inflation mean in TPL?

I've been reading this blog post and accompanying pdf document about the performance improvements in TPL for version 4.5 .Net.

The pdf document has a list of instances when it can happen, but I wanted a more precise definition of the term?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 48

Answers (1)

Reed Copsey
Reed Copsey

Reputation: 564413

The linked document lists what can cause this, but it's effectively when the Task class is forced to internally allocate other memory, "inflating" it's size. Certain use cases cause the Task class to allocate an internal ContingentProperties class and store a reference within the task, which is referred to as "inflation" in that document.

The normal use case for Task will avoid allocating the extra internal class to store these properties, which causes it to stay smaller in overall size most of the time.

Upvotes: 4

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