state of parallelism in MS C# and Mono

Question

for a project I'm working on, I need to work with threads. I was wondering: what is the state of parallelism in MS C# and, particularly, Mono , as compared for example to OpenMP and pthreads ? How much control do I have over threads in C#? What will I not be able to do? For instance, can I synchronize explicitly? Can I work directly with mutexes? Can I do conditional wait? Thanks.

Answer 1

You'll have virtually all the control over threads

The .NET framework contains virtually all ( monitor , manualresetevent , autoresetevent , sempaphore , readerwriterlock etc) primitives. For special needs catering you can always P/Invoke (though you'll have to have multiple implementations to stay portable)

Mono has a PLINQ implementation (coming along)

See Miguel de Icaza's blog post on C# 3.0 and Parallel FX/LINQ in Mono . It should be is in Mono 2.8

So yes yes yes and yes :)

Answer 2

在Mono上，您可以像在.Net上一样对待线程程序，托管代码的运行时兼容性是Mono项目的主要目标。