memory management

Why the types Memory and ReadOnlyMemory are struct instead of class? As they generally are used on asynchronous calls and are moved to the heap.

In C# would it be good practice to free up unmanaged resources in the destructor for an object ? That way the Garbage Collector will do it and the object has a consistent state ? You could if you needed to have a separate contained object for unmanaged resources ? I'm not sure why you would use...

Hello Everyone . I've come to ask help with a problem that has been annoying me for days. I'm trying to create five images (read TIFFS from the harddisk), rotate and add them to a collection (List<Image<Bgra,byte>>)(Image<Bgra,byte> is an OpenCV Image). However i'm always having memory problems...

As my program steps through a dictionary and inserts records, my memory usage creeps up until I get a failure in my code. I am opening my connection to Oracle at the beginning and then just reuse the same connection during the entire process. So, calling the following code with a large insert...

In C sharp is possible to have two ways of memory management. My question is for automatic use of memory management instead of manual, represents lower performance?