user@runtime:~/blog$ grep -l "span" posts/*.md

span

2 posts tagged with span.

2026-04-12 9m

SearchValues: The .NET Type That Turns Text Searching Into a SIMD Problem

SearchValues<T> analyses your search criteria once at creation time, then uses SIMD vectorisation and specialised algorithms to search spans at speeds most hand-written loops cannot match.

2026-04-10 10m

First-Class Span Types in C# 14: The End of Overload Sprawl

C# 14 promotes Span<T> and ReadOnlySpan<T> to first-class citizens with implicit conversions, smarter type inference, and new overload resolution rules that eliminate the need for duplicate API overloads across arrays and spans.