azengar/unmanagedmemoryutils

A .NET collection of utilities for working with unmanaged memory.

UnmanagedMemoryUtils

Hosted on github: https://github.com/Azengar/UnmanagedMemoryUtils.

Available on Nuget at: https://www.nuget.org/packages/UnmanagedMemoryUtils/ (UnmanagedMemoryUtils)

A .NET collection of utilities for working with unmanaged memory.

Provides faster alternatives to Memory<T> and ReadOnlyMemory<T> in addition to accessing unmanaged string from managed code.

Allows to manipulate array of unmanaged pointers with the UnmanagedArrayPointer<T> struct.

Making a release

• Generate new commit with your changes with a message: git commit -m "Version X.X.X: Notes about the change"
• Tag the new commit: git tag vX.X.X -m "Version X.X.X"
• Push the commit: git push and the tag git push origin vX.X.X
• Build the new Release binaries. The package is built automatically alongside the binaries.
• Navigate to ./UnmanagedMemoryUtils/UnmanagedMemoryUtils/bin/Release
• Publish the package: dotnet nuget push .\UnmanagedMemoryUtils.X.X.X.nupkg --api-key <YOUR_API_KEY> --source https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json

Changelog

Version 1.0.2

• Changed from Unsafe.CopyBlock to Unsafe.CopyBlockUnaligned.

Version 1.0.3

• Added Aggressive Inlining for Allocate methods.

Version 1.0.4

• Added the UnmanagedPointerArray<T> struct used to manipulate array of pointers.
• Marked all properties as readonly as they don't modify the state of the structs.
• Use the new namespace syntax for less indentation levels.

Version 1.0.5

• Fixed an issue that made it impossible to retrieve the string value of an UnmanagedString with the ToString method.

Version 1.0.6

• Readme update with Nuget link.

Version 1.1.0

• Update to .NET 8
• Adds a new IUnsafeDisposable interface which offers an unsafe but less performance impacting to the standard IDisposable and finalizer pattern.
  • This interface is now implemented by IUnmanagedString and is available to use outside the library.