Hands-On Parallel Programming with C# 8 and .NET Core 3

Using ConcurrentQueue<T>

Concurrent queues can be used to solve producer/consumer scenarios in application programming. In the producer/consumer programming pattern, one or more threads produce data and one or more threads consume data. This leads to race conditions among threads. We can solve this problem via the following approaches:

• Using queues
• Using ConcurrentQueue<T>

Based on which thread (producer/consumer) has the responsibility to add/consume data, the producer-consumer pattern can be classified into the following:

• Pure producer-consumer, where a thread can either only produce data or only consume data but cannot do both
• Mixed producer-consumer, where any thread can produce or consume data at the same time

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