Chapter 2. Thread Synchronization

In this chapter, we will describe some of the common techniques of working with shared resources from multiple threads. You will learn the following recipes:

  • Performing basic atomic operations
  • Using the Mutex construct
  • Using the SemaphoreSlim construct
  • Using the AutoResetEvent construct
  • Using the ManualResetEventSlim construct
  • Using the CountDownEvent construct
  • Using the Barrier construct
  • Using the ReaderWriterLockSlim construct
  • Using the SpinWait construct

Introduction

As we saw in Chapter 1, Threading Basics, it is problematic to use a shared object simultaneously from several threads. However, it is very important to synchronize those threads so that they perform operations on that shared object in a proper sequence. ...

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