Many readers, one writer - is it possible to avoid locking?

Question

Say you have an in-memory list of strings, and a multi-threaded system, with many readers but just one writer thread.

In general, is it possible to implement this kind o

Answer 1

To avoid locks, you might want to consider Microsoft's concurrent collections. These collections provide thread safe access to collections of objects in both ordered and unordered forms. They use some neat tricks to avoid locking internally in as many instances as possible.