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One argument I commonly hear against immutable collections is they are slow. I’ve held the opposite belief for some time but shamefully had yet to look at actual numbers on the CLR. Tonight I decided to change that by benchmarking one of my
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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
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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
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A few days ago, I recklessly added a [Serialization] attribute to a few of my immutable collection types. I needed to pass data between AppDomain's and adding [Serialization] was the quick and dirty fix. Compiled, ran and I didn't think much
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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>
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Previously we discussed a multi-thread safe queue like data structure using locks as an internal synchronization mechanism. This time we'll look at a version requiring no locks. In the previous version, locks were used to synchronize access to an underlying
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Part 6 left us with comparable tuples. At this point, the Tuple class is functionally complete. There will be a little more done with the debugability and overall fit into larger projects. But otherwise it is sound. Now the focus
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A tuple in computer science can be described as a set of name/value pairs. In some cases it can be described as simply a set of values that are accessible via an index [1]. Previously I discussed how to create a Tuple inside of PowerShell . This series
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