March 2006 - Posts

• Analysis of Reader-Writer lock

  In my last post I posted readerWriterDemo.cs which is an implementation of a Reader-Writer lock. I held it up as an example of good design of a concurrent data structure. I want to now show you a bit of what my thinking was when it was designed and what Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 29, 2006 9:11 PM by vancem | 14 Comments Filed under: Concurrency

• Low-Lock Techniques in action: Implementing a Reader-Writer lock

  In my article What Every Dev Must Know About Multithreaded Apps I discuss the fundamental principles of using locks correctly. In that article I strongly encourage the use of reader-writer locks because these locks create the protection you need (insuring Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 28, 2006 11:40 AM by vancem | 17 Comments Filed under: Perf, Concurrency Attachment(s): readerWriterDemo.cs

• Digging into interface calls in the .NET Framework: Stub-based dispatch.

  In my last blog , I demonstrated how to use the .NET SOS.DLL extension DLL in the Visual Studio. In this entry I will use the capabilities of this extension DLL to dig into the way the .NET framework handles interface dispatch. As with all my blog entries, Read More... Posted Monday, March 13, 2006 11:49 AM by vancem | 10 Comments Attachment(s): interfaceDispatch.cs

• Getting down to the metal: using the CLR Runtime's SOS extention in Visual Studio

  In my last blog I talked a bit about how you go about using Visual Studio to look at "Release" code so that you can find out what code is actually generated by a particular high level programming construct. As a quick recap the tricky part of insuring Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 07, 2006 12:25 PM by vancem | 5 Comments