Concurrent collections for C# using Parallel Extensions

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Concurrent collections for C# using Parallel Extensions(software.intel.com)

submitted by mark_csharpcoder(135) 3 years, 1 month ago

One of the most difficult tasks related to concurrent programming in C# and .Net 3.5 is sharing collections, arrays or lists between many tasks running at the same time. Besides, the complexity increases when these concurrent tasks need to add and/or remove items from them. Doing this safely involves a great control of coordination data structures and the efficient use of precise locks. Luckily, the June 2008 CTP (Community Technology Preview) of Parallel Extensions to the .Net Framework added very interesting high-level coordination data structures and thread-safe collections. The result is amazing: the producer-consumer scheme complexity reduced to a minimum...

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