generics collections and containers

[DPStano 15]

can we have generics collections and lock-free containers?

[Stefan Glienke 2002]

What type of collections do you have in mind?

Not all types of collections can be implemented completely lock-free in an efficient way or they are hilariously complex to implement.

Depending on the implementation some operations might not have the same characteristics of a regular thread-unsafe implementation.

[DPStano 15]

mostly all of them 🙂 ... eg TOmniBlockingCollection when using with IOmniParallelLoop<TLogItem>;

 

to add the item you can't insert TLogItem directly but have to Add it with TOmniValue, s/t like TOmniBlockingCollection<TLogItem> would be much easier to use

 

the name does not say anything that it's a lock-free collection, it could be lock-free just for primitive types