Description
The System.Threading.Interlocked methods protect against errors that can occur when the scheduler switches contexts while a thread is updating a variable that can be accessed by other threads. The members of this class do not throw exceptions.
[Note: The System.Threading.Interlocked.Increment method and its counterpart, System.Threading.Interlocked.Decrement, increment or decrement a variable and store the resulting value as an atomic operation. The System.Threading.Interlocked.Exchange method atomically exchanges the values of the specified variables. The System.Threading.Interlocked.CompareExchange method provides an atomic operation that compares two values and stores a third value in one of the variables, based on the outcome ...
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