Using ConcurrentBag
The ConcurrentBag<T>
is an unordered collection of objects that can be safely added, peeked at, or removed concurrently. Keep in mind that, as with all of the concurrent collections, the methods exposed by ConcurrentBag<T>
are thread-safe, but any extension methods are not guaranteed to be safe. Always implement your own synchronization when leveraging them. To review a list of safe methods, you can review this Microsoft Docs page: https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/system.collections.concurrent.concurrentbag-1#methods.
We are going to create a sample application that simulates working with a pool of objects. This scenario can be useful if you have some processing that leverages a stateful object that is memory-intensive. You want to minimize the number of objects created but cannot reuse one until the previous iteration has finished using it and returned it to the pool.
In our example, we will use a mocked-up PDF processing class that is assumed...