Is Parallel.ForEach in ConcurrentBag thread safe

Question

Description of ConcurrentBag on MSDN is not clear:

Bags are useful for storing objects when ordering doesn\'t matter, and unlike sets, bags support duplicates. C

Answer 1

ConcurrentBag and Parallel.ForEach seems to me, no problem. If you uses this types in scenarios that has a large volume multi-user access, these classes in your implementation could rise up cpu process to levels that can crash your web-server. Furthermore, this implementation starts N tasks (threads) to execute each one of iterations, so be careful when choice this classes ans implementations. I recently spent in this situation and I had to extract memory dump to analyze whats happens into my web application core. So, be careful 'cause Concurrentbag is ThreadSafe and in web scenarios it is no better way.

Answer 2

That looks fine to me. The way you're using it is thread-safe.

If you could return an IEnumerable<XYZ>, it could be made more efficient by not copying to a List<T> when you're done.