Process Lasso - Native code

Process Lasso is written entirely in native, unmanaged code. This means that it does NOT use the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) and that the code is compiled directly to machine code, instead of to Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL). The advantage of this is low memory use and fast performance.

You may ask, why do developers use .NET if it increases memory consumption and CPU use? The answer is simply that .NET offers easier and quicker application development. To be fair, we should clarify that for some applications the difference in performance between managed (.NET) and unmanaged (native) code is negligible, but this is certainly not the case for a resident process manager like Process Lasso. Since Process Lasso is always running, it is imperative that it consumes as few system resources as possible. The worst thing a performance utility could do is make matters worse by consuming a lot of system resources itself. Sadly, this is what many task managers do.

We took the hard route to ensure our application consumes as few resources as possible. We even went one step further and used the lowest level API available for process management - the largely undocumented NT Native APIs. We hope our customers appreciate our dedication to software efficiency.

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