The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers

Igor Ostrovsky wrote a few very nice MSDN magazine articles. Not all of them have ended up in the list at MSDN magazine, so here is a more complete list:

• C# – The C# Memory Model in Theory and Practice, Part 2 (January 2013).
• C# – The C# Memory Model in Theory and Practice (December 2012, was missing in the MSDN magazine article list).
• Async Tasks – Simplify Asynchronous Programming with Tasks (September 2010).
• Concurrent Affairs: Data-Parallel Patterns and PLINQ (December 2009).
• .NET Matters: False Sharing (October 2008).

Though the articles show the majority of sample code in C#, the actual topics are of great interest to any developer writing .NET code or interfacing to it.

Some keywords in his articles:

• PLINQ
• volatile and read/write reordering
• memory access patterns
• threading, locking
• System.Threading and System.Collections.Concurrent namespaces
• ThreadPool
• InvokeAsync, RunWorkerAsync, SendAsync, DownloadStringAsync
• IAsyncResult
• System.Threading.Task.Tasks and task composition and parallel execution
• SynchronizationContext
• False sharing (when 2 unrelated objects share the same processor cache line)
• Sequence Zipping
• JIT Compiler optimizations and influence on memory operationsC++

–jeroen

via: MSDN Magazine Authors: Igor Ostrovsky.