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Asked: 2026-05-15T04:23:05+00:00

A byte stream should be transferred and there is one producer thread and a

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A byte stream should be transferred and there is one producer thread and a consumer one.
Speed of producer is higher than consumer most of the time, and I need enough buffered data for QoS of my application.
I read about my problem and there are solutions like shared buffer, PipeStream .NET class …
This class is going to be instantiated many times on server so I need and optimized solution.
Is it good idea to use a Queue of ByteArray ?

If yes, I’ll use an optimization algorithm to guess the Queue size and each ByteArray capacity and theoretically it fits my case.

If no, I what’s the best approach ?

Please let me know if there’s a good lock free thread safe implementation of ByteArray Queue in C# or VB.

Thanks in advance

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  1. Editorial Team

    Most important part is the design of the shared object. In my scenario reader and writer can use separate buffers (big data chunks) independently and then, only accessing a shared FIFO object like a queue should be synchronized. This way lock time is minimized and threads can complete the job in parallel. And with .NET framewok 4.0 implementation of this concept made easy :

    There’s a ConcurrentQueue(Of T) Class in System.Collections.Concurrent namespace and arrayByte is a good type to use as queue type for my scenario. There are other thread-safe collections in the namespace.

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.collections.concurrent.aspx

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