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Thread Synchronization: Ensuring Atomic Operations
An article about atomic transactions and how to maintain them using locks in C#
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volatile and MemoryBarrier()...
That part I knew… what we news to me is there is a better way to do volatile, and that is with an explicitly memory barrier before accessing the data member.. We have a an API for that: System.Threading.Thread.MemoryBarrier(). This is more efficient than using volatile because a volatile field r...
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Threading - Never Lock This Redux
Why locking on "this" can be a bad idea -- and how to lock in a safer manner.