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Mastering C# Concurrency

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Mastering C# Concurrency

Overview of this book

Starting with the traditional approach to concurrency, you will learn how to write multithreaded concurrent programs and compose ways that won't require locking. You will explore the concepts of parallelism granularity, and fine-grained and coarse-grained parallel tasks by choosing a concurrent program structure and parallelizing the workload optimally. You will also learn how to use task parallel library, cancellations, timeouts, and how to handle errors. You will know how to choose the appropriate data structure for a specific parallel algorithm to achieve scalability and performance. Further, you'll learn about server scalability, asynchronous I/O, and thread pools, and write responsive traditional Windows and Windows Store applications. By the end of the book, you will be able to diagnose and resolve typical problems that could happen in multithreaded applications.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering C# Concurrency
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

ConcurrentDictionary


We can improve the implementation of CustomProvider using ConcurrentDictionary<TKey, TValue> to handle the synchronization:

public class CustomProvider
{
    private readonly 
        ConcurrentDictionary<string, OperationResult> _cache = 
            new ConcurrentDictionary<string, OperationResult>();
 
    public OperationResult RunOperationOrGetFromCache(
        string operationId)
    {
        return _cache.GetOrAdd(operationId, 
            id => RunLongRunningOperation(id));
    }
 
    private OperationResult RunLongRunningOperation(
        string operationId)
    {
        // Running real long-running operation
        // ...
        Console.WriteLine("Running long-running operation");
        return OperationResult.Create(operationId);
    }
}

The code became much simpler. We just used the GetOrAdd method and it does exactly what we need; if there is an element in the dictionary, it just returns its value or runs a provided delegate, gets...