I’m using Thread.SpinWait on a special thread to create a near-exact 2ms delay with minimal chance of a context switch, needed for precise hardware co ...

I've developed a monitor-object like that of Java for C++ with some improvements. The major improvement is that there's not only a spin-loop for locki ...

I have a relatively simple method to wait until an element exists and is displayed. The method handles the situation where more than a single element ...

Below is an implementation of an interlocked method based on Interlocked.CompareExchange. Is it advisable for this code to use a SpinWait spin before ...

I have the following struct used by a writer thread and a reader thread. The reader has to respond to the new values as fast as possible. To do tha ...

Windows .NET (C++) provides SpinWait for Hyper-threading friendly busy waiting with YIELD/PAUSE instructions. What is the equivalent function on Linux ...

Recently I was reading implementation of .NET Hashtable and encountered piece of code that I don't understand. Part of the code is: The whole code ...

MSDN "Thread-Safe Collections .NET Framework 4" states: "Some of the concurrent collection types use lightweight synchronization mechanisms such ...

I am using nutch 2.1 and crawling a site. The problem is that the crawler keeps showing fetching url spinwaiting/active and since the fetching takes s ...

I have a polling loop in C# that needs to poll every 100 microseconds on average < EDIT> (given of course that there is no excessive preemptive ...

I had a look at the concurrent collections but they appear to use normal locking underneath the hood. Are there any good examples in the .Net framewor ...

I suppose this question can be boiled down to "SpinWait vs. Block?", but I figured there may be a more interesting answer as to why nearly every C# th ...