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Is there a threadsafe and generic IList<T> in c#?

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+7 A:

System.Collections.Concurrent.BlockingCollection<T>

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Mau 2010-07-15 20:29:24

Answer 2

+5 A:

.NET 4.0 you could use the BlockingCollection<T>, but that is still designed to be thread safe for all operations, not just addition.

In general, it's uncommon to design a data structure that guarantees certain operations to be safe for concurrency and other to not be so. If you're concerned that there is an overhead when accessing a collection for reading, you should do some benchmarking before you go out of your way to look for specialized collections to deal with that.

LBushkin 2010-07-15 20:33:27

+1 Much more info on the blocking collection, and other concerns were addressed. @LBushkin - No I was thinking there was no type built in that was fully thread-safe, it seems 4.0 is newer than the question I used to form my question.

Maslow 2010-07-15 21:07:31

@Maslow: Yes, .NET 4 introduced a number of new collection types in the System.Collection.Concurrent namespace (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd287108.aspx).

LBushkin 2010-07-15 21:14:32

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