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Senior .NET performance traps: boxing value types in collections, sync-over-async (blocking .Result or .Wait()), capturing too-large closures in LINQ or lambdas, using string concatenation instead of StringBuilder in loops, large LOH allocations, excessive reflection, and not using Span or Memory for high-throughput buffer operations.
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Excess allocations
Boxing
Heavy LINQ in hot paths
Lambdas capturing hidden allocations
Blocking async
Excessive locking
Exceptions for flow control
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