Mastering C# Concurrency

Optimization strategy

Creating parallel algorithms is not a simple task: there is no universal solution to it. In every case, you have to use a specific approach to write effective code. However, there are several simple rules that work for most of the parallel programs.

Lock localization

The first thing to take into account when writing parallel code is to lock as little code as possible, and ensure that the code inside the lock runs as fast as possible. This makes it less deadlock-prone and scale better with the number of CPU cores. To sum up, acquire the lock as late as possible and release it as soon as possible.

Let us consider the following situation: for example, we have some calculation performed by method Calc without any side effects. We ...