.NET 6 Released: The Fastest .NET Yet

Today is the day. .NET 6 is officially generally available. It is an LTS (Long Term Support) release, meaning it’s supported for 3 years. It completes the unification.

Performance Improvements

gantt
    title Requests Per Second (Thousands)
    dateFormat X
    axisFormat %s
    
    section Frameworks
    .NET 6                : 1350, 0, 1350
    .NET 5                : 1050, 0, 1050
    node.js               : 380, 0, 380

The FileStream rewrite alone provides a 4x improvement in file I/O operations. If you are on .NET Core 3.1 or .NET 5, upgrade immediately. The migration is trivial, and the gains are massive.


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