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In this article , Vance Morrison describes some of the issues involved in writing managed multithreaded code that avoids the use of locks. In particular, he discusses the impact of memory models on lock-free (or low-lock) programming. For managed code...

The .NET framework currently offers several synchronization primitives: Monitors (via the Monitor class. C# users know this as the "lock" statement) Two varieties of reader/writer lock (ReaderWriterLock / ReaderWriterLockSlim) Events (ManualResetEvent...