Parallel execution
In the previous section, the discussion was centered on the System.Threading.Tasks
namespace and the Task
class. Even though tasks are the cornerstone of the task-based asynchronous model and so-called Task Parallelism, the concurrent collections namespace makes up the Data Parallelism side of the async model and provides developers with tools to execute code most efficiently and in a thread-safe manner.
BlockingCollection<T>
is one of the concurrent collection implementations that encapsulates the core synchronization and coordination between threads and provides a thread-safe data storage to implement a provider-consumer model in Xamarin applications.
Using BlockingCollection<T>
, we can easily implement a new method that makes ...
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