So as you c a n see in the image below we have a 33,3% gain for Dapper, 16,6% for EntityFramework, and 12,9% for NHibernate, so the overall performance is around 20%!  

using System;

namespace AccessViolationExceptionSample
{
    class Program
    {
        private static unsafe void AccessViolation()
        {
            byte b = *(byte*)(8762765876);
        }

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            try
            {
                AccessViolation();
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(ex);
            }

            Console.WriteLine("Press a key...");
            Console.ReadKey();
        }
    }
}

   [HandleProcessCorruptedStateExceptions]
  static void Main(string[] args)
  {

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
  <runtime>
     <legacyCorruptedStateExceptionsPolicy enabled="true" />
  </runtime>
</configuration>

namespace NET7Reflection;

public class Person
{
    private int _age;

    internal Person(int age) => _age = age;

    private int GetAge() => _age;

    private void SetAge(int age) => _age = age;
}

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

  <PropertyGroup>
    <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
    <TargetFramework>net7.0</TargetFramework>
    <ImplicitUsings>enable</ImplicitUsings>
    <Nullable>enable</Nullable>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="BenchmarkDotNet" Version="0.13.4" />
  </ItemGroup>

</Project>

using System.Reflection;
using BenchmarkDotNet.Attributes;

namespace NET7Reflection;

[MemoryDiagnoser(false)]
public class Benchmarks
{
    private readonly object?[] _ageParams = { 30 };

    private readonly ConstructorInfo _ctor =
        typeof(Person).GetConstructor(BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance, new[] { typeof(int) })!;

    private readonly MethodInfo _getAgeMethod =
        typeof(Person).GetMethod("GetAge", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance)!;

    private readonly Person _person = new(10);

    private readonly MethodInfo _setAgeMethod =
        typeof(Person).GetMethod("SetAge", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance)!;

    [Benchmark]
    public int GetAge() =>
        (int)typeof(Person).GetMethod("GetAge", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance)!
                           .Invoke(_person, Array.Empty<object?>())!;

    [Benchmark]
    public int GetAgeCachedMethod() => (int)_getAgeMethod.Invoke(_person, Array.Empty<object?>())!;

    [Benchmark]
    public void SetAge() =>
        typeof(Person).GetMethod("SetAge", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance)!
                      .Invoke(_person, new object?[] { 30 });

    [Benchmark]
    public void SetAgeCachedMethod() => _setAgeMethod.Invoke(_person, new object?[] { 30 });

    [Benchmark]
    public void SetAgeCachedMethodCachedParams() => _setAgeMethod.Invoke(_person, _ageParams);

    [Benchmark]
    public Person Ctor() =>
        (Person)typeof(Person).GetConstructor(BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance, new[] { typeof(int) })!
                              .Invoke(_person, new object?[] { 30 })!;

    [Benchmark]
    public Person CtorCachedCtorInfo() => (Person)_ctor.Invoke(_person, new object?[] { 30 })!;

    [Benchmark]
    public Person CtorCachedCtorInfoCachedParams() => (Person)_ctor.Invoke(_person, _ageParams)!;
}

using BenchmarkDotNet.Running;
using NET7Reflection;

BenchmarkRunner.Run<Benchmarks>();

Compiles JavaScript into shader language which can then be compiled and run on GPUs for significantly boosted performance in specific use cases (neural networks, raytracing..) 

for (int i = 0; i < 2000; i++)
{
    Pupil pupil = GetNewPupil();
    db.Pupils.Add(pupil);
}
db.SaveChanges();

var list = new List<Pupil>();

for (int i = 0; i < 2000; i++)
{
    Pupil pupil = GetNewPupil();
    list.Add(pupil);
}

db.Pupils.AddRange(list);
db.SaveChanges();

db.Configuration.AutoDetectChangesEnabled = false;

string city = "New York";

List<School> schools = db.Schools
    .AsNoTracking()
    .Where(s => s.City == city)
    .Take(100)
    .ToList();

 public class CustomManifestTokenResolver : IManifestTokenResolver
{
    public string ResolveManifestToken(DbConnection connection)
    {
        return "2014";
    }
}

 public class CustomDbConfiguration : DbConfiguration
{
    public CustomDbConfiguration()
    {
        SetManifestTokenResolver(new CustomManifestTokenResolver());
    }
}

MultipleActiveResultSets=True;

As with every .NET release, Microsoft improves the performance of the runtime and guess what: This release is no exception to this. In this blog post, I want to go through some of the improvements made so far (.NET 8 preview 3). 

In case you are curious, a new benchmark appeared. The benchmark is really simple at present, but I think their plans are to increase the complexity over time to show a more real-world use case than something like the TechEmpower benchmarks which are typically optimized for performance.