How has .NET 10 improved JIT code generation for better-performing applications?

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Each .NET version improved many things, and the JIT compiler/optimizer is no exception. I was today reading how .NET 10's JIT has improved from the previous version. The changes are, shortly put, subtle but meaningful in real-world applications.

The changes include passing variable values in CPU registers instead of the stack, allocating stack instead of the heap for local variables even if they are reference types, AVX10.2 support and loop inversion.

This is not an extensive list, and I'm happy to see that even after almost 25 years of .NET, there's still energy to optimize what kind of code the CPU is going to execute.

Recommended reading!