"Speed Up Your VB.NET Code" by Francesco Balena
Visual Studio Magazine, August 2002

This demo program contains all the VB code used to benchmark various optimization techniques. Notice that this is a console application, and you must uncomment one or more lines in the Sub Main routine to run individual benchmarks.

To achive the same results mentioned in the articles you should run in Release mode (without any Debug setting), turn on optimizations in the Optimizations page of the Project Properties dialog.

