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Im using Generic.Queue in C# 3.0 and Monitor.Enter,wait,exit for wait before consuming the queue (wait for the element to be enqueued). Now im moving to C# 4.
Can anyone suggest me which one is fast and best especially to avoid locks..
BlockingCollection vs concurrentQueue or any thing else...
Note. I dont want to restrict my producer
Thanks in advance..
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BlockingCollection<T> is a thread-safe collection class that provides the following features: An implementation of the Producer-Consumer pattern.
What is a concurrent queue? A concurrent queue allows us to execute multiple tasks at the same time. Tasks will always start in the order they're added but they can finish in a different order as they can be executed in parallel. Tasks will run on distinct threads that are managed by the dispatch queue.
BlockingCollection and ConcurrentQueue are there for precisely this reason. I doubt that you'll find anything better, or simpler to use. The parallel extensions team know their stuff :)
Just a quick check on versions though - you're definitely using .NET 4, not just C# 4? (For example, you could be using Visual Studio 2010 and thus C# 4, but still targeting .NET 3.5, in which case you couldn't use Parallel Extensions.)
You may also want to start researching Task-Based Asynchronous Pattern, TPL Dataflow and the async/await features of C# 5... obviously you can't use them just yet, but it doesn't hurt to know what's coming up.
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