2009/10/23 Martin McClure <martin@hand2mouse.com>:
It's probably possible to write a hashed collection that is thread-safe and semaphore-free for both read and write, but unless there's a very specific requirement for that it's probably simpler, faster, and more reliable to just use a semaphore.
+1. If you traveling into the field of concurrency, you have to change the mindset. You should pick different abstractions for that. And collections is one which you should leave to grow in single-threaded woods. Or.. of course.. you can attempt to make them thread-safe.. But it will be clumpsy , rigid and very error prone.
Regards,
-Martin
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