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Answer by svick for A concurrency-safe stack structure
Are the locks necessary?Some synchronization is necessary, but it doesn't necessarily have to be a lock.Another option would be to use Interlocked.CompareExchange. But doing that is more complicated,...
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Will this actually be thread safe?Yes, I think it will. All access to the _stack field is protected by a lock, so I do not see why this wouldn't be thread safe.A nice coincidence of using immutable...
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This is a teaching sample intended to illustrate use of mutability and list consing in F#. The structure is intended to be a thread-safe stack structure, which multiple threads can push to/pop from...
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