Question

I have a HashTable which is accessed by multiple threads. For example lets look at three threads:

Thread A does Hash.Insert(“a”,new object());

Thread B does Hash.Insert(“b”,new object());

Thread C does Hash.Insert(“a”,new object());

For some reasons, I cannot use a Lock on the entire Hash

I dont care about the order or which object will be at the hash at the end of the process. The only thing I care about is not getting data corruption by updating the same cell from different threads.

What are my options? or is it not a problem and the HashTable handles that by itself and keeps the data in tact.

Answer 1

You could consider using something like:

ConcurrentDictionary<string, object> Hash = new ConcurrentDictionary<string, object>();

from the System.Collections.Concurrent namespace.