Synchronisation in .NET– Part 1: `lock()`, Dictionaries and Arrays
As part of our tuning efforts at Livedrive, I ran into a deceptively simple problem that beautifully illustrates some of the scale principles I have been teaching to the SQL Server community for years.
In this series of blog entries, I will use what appears to be a simple .NET class to explore how modern CPU
architectures handle high speed synchronisation. In the first part of the series, I set the stage and explore the .NET
lock() method of coordinating data.