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Why are thread safe collections so hard?
Writing a collection which is mutable, thread safe and usable is an extremely difficult process. At least that’s what you’ve likely been told all through your schooling. But then you get out on the web and see a multitude of thread safe lists, maps and Read More...

Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2009 8:00 AM by Jared Parsons | 52 Comments

Immutable Collections and Compatibility with Existing Frameworks
When developing my immutable collections library , I spent a lot of time on usability. After all, if a library is not useful then what’s the point? A big portion of usability is being able to work with existing frameworks and technologies. For .Net and Read More...

Posted Wednesday, December 10, 2008 8:00 AM by Jared Parsons | 3 Comments

Immutability and ReadOnlyCollection<T>
I am a huge fan of read only/immutable collections and data. Hopefully the increased exposure through the blogosphere alerted users to the advantages of this type of programming for the appropriate scenarios. I wanted to discuss ReadOnlyCollection<T> Read More...

Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 8:42 AM by Jared Parsons | 1 Comments

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