All about Async/Await, System.Threading.Tasks, System.Collections.Concurrent, System.Linq, and more…
May 31, 2012May 31, 201205/31/12In the previous “What’s New for Parallelism in Visual Studio 2012 RC” blog post, I mentioned briefly that for the .NET 4.5 Release Candidate, StreamReader.ReadLineAsync experienced a significant performance improvement over Beta. There’s an intriguing story behind that, one I thought I’d share here.
May 31, 2012May 31, 201205/31/12In September, I blogged about what was new for parallelism and asynchrony in the Visual Studio 2012 Developer Preview, and in February I followed that up with a post on what was new in the Beta. Now that Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate is out,
May 8, 2012May 8, 201205/8/12Since .NET 4’s release, I’ve received several questions about a peculiar behavior of ConcurrentQueue<T> having to do with memory management.
With Queue<T>, List<T>, and other such data structures in the .NET Framework, when you remove an element from the collection, the collection internally wipes out its reference to the stored element,
