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Hands-On Parallel Programming with C# 8 and .NET Core 3

You're reading from   Hands-On Parallel Programming with C# 8 and .NET Core 3 Build solid enterprise software using task parallelism and multithreading

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789132410
Length 346 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Shakti Tanwar Shakti Tanwar
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Fundamentals of Threading, Multitasking, and Asynchrony FREE CHAPTER
2. Introduction to Parallel Programming 3. Task Parallelism 4. Implementing Data Parallelism 5. Using PLINQ 6. Section 2: Data Structures that Support Parallelism in .NET Core
7. Synchronization Primitives 8. Using Concurrent Collections 9. Improving Performance with Lazy Initialization 10. Section 3: Asynchronous Programming Using C#
11. Introduction to Asynchronous Programming 12. Async, Await, and Task-Based Asynchronous Programming Basics 13. Section 4: Debugging, Diagnostics, and Unit Testing for Async Code
14. Debugging Tasks Using Visual Studio 15. Writing Unit Test Cases for Parallel and Asynchronous Code 16. Section 5: Parallel Programming Feature Additions to .NET Core
17. IIS and Kestrel in ASP.NET Core 18. Patterns in Parallel Programming 19. Distributed Memory Management 20. Assessments 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Reducing the overhead with lazy initializations

Lazy<T> uses a level of indirection by wrapping the underlying object. This can cause computational as well as memory issues. To avoid wrapping objects, we can use the static variant of Lazy<T> class, which is the LazyInitializer class.

We can use LazyInitializer.EnsureInitialized to initialize a data member that is passed via a reference as well as an initialization function, like we did with Lazy<T>.

The method can be called via multiple threads, but once a value is initialized, it will be used as a result for all of the threads. For the sake of demonstration, I have added a line to the console inside the initialization logic. Though the loop runs 10 times, the initialization will happen only once for single-thread execution:

 static Data _data;
public static void Main()
{
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
...
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