Below is an implementation of an interlocked method based on Interlocked.CompareExchange. Is it advisable for this code to use a SpinWait spin before reiterating? public static bool AddIfLessThan...

While reading Albahari's Threading in C#, I've noticed that the "lock free update" pattern uses a SpinWait at the end of the cycle: static void LockFreeUpdate<T> (ref T field, Func <T, T&...

Recently I was reading implementation of .NET Hashtable and encountered piece of code that I don't understand. Part of the code is: int num3 = 0; int num4; do { num4 = this.version; bucket = buc...

MSDN "Thread-Safe Collections .NET Framework 4" states: "Some of the concurrent collection types use lightweight synchronization mechanisms such as SpinLock, SpinWait, SemaphoreSlim, and Coun...

I had a look at the concurrent collections but they appear to use normal locking underneath the hood. Are there any good examples in the .Net framework that use this locking construct? I initial...