.Net 4 introduced the Lazy<T> type which allows you to create an object that can be lazily initialized so that you can delay the creation of large objects, for instance. However, if your initialization logic has the potential to except at runtime (e.g. ti[...]

After watching Gael’s recent SkillsMatter talk on multithreading I’ve put together some notes from a very educational talk:   Hardware Cache Hierarchy Four levels of cache L1 (per core) – typically used for instructions L2 (per core) L3 (per die) DRAM (al[...]

In the last post I discussed an asynchronous version of the ManualResetEvent and as promised this time we will be looking at

In this post we are going back to the primitive. No it’s not about the same named song by Soulfly, (which incidenta