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The insanely scalable ReaderWriterGate lock

published 2 months, 16 days ago, submitted by

JudahGabriel 2 months, 18 days ago

msdn2.microsoft.com — Wintellect's Jeffrey Richter, the Win32 threading guru, has written a library containing a new kind of lock: the ReaderWriterGate. Unlike other locks, this lock is highly scalable and fast with very few thread context switches. Works well with ASP.NET web apps as well.

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Oldie, but not too many folks know about this lock or the other high-performance threading tools inside the PowerThreading lib. Definitely worth your while.

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JudahGabriel 2 months, 17 days ago

I knew Jeffrey wrote a killer ReaderWriterLock implementation (and I thought he sold it to MS) then ReaderWriterLockSlim was released in 3.5.
I wonder how this differs from ReaderWriterLockSlim if this is an old article.

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CVertex 2 months, 16 days ago

Aaah, Jeffrey Richter. I fell in love with him when I read his great romance novel, CLR Via C#. I read a chapter out of that book every night before I go to bed.

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yesthatmcgurk 2 months, 16 days ago

RE CVertex: The .NET 3.5 ReaderWriterLockSlim is an entirely different implementation of a reader writer lock; it is by no means the same as the ReaderWriterGate discussed in the article.

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JudahGabriel 2 months, 16 days ago