C# Class GSF.Threading.TinyLock

Provides a light weight exclusive lock that is approximately 2.5 times faster than Monitor. WARNING: This lock should be used in a Using block, and duplicate calls to Lock without releasing will cause a deadlock.

After writing this class I did some review of the methodology. Reviewing this article: http://www.adammil.net/blog/v111_Creating_High-Performance_Locks_and_Lock-free_Code_for_NET_.html Brings up stability issues with the lock. Namely what happens when unhandled exceptions occurs when acquiring and releasing the lock. I have intentionally left out any kind of protection against this as it severly reduces the speed of this code. Therefore do not use this locking method where a Thread.Abort() might be used as a control method.

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Public Methods

Method	Description
TinyLock ( ) : System	Creates a TinyLock

Private Methods

Method	Description
Lock ( ) : TinyLockRelease
LockSlower ( ) : void	A nested call since 99% of the time, there will not be contention. This prevents stack space being used for the SpinLock when its not needed.

Method Details

TinyLock() public method

Creates a TinyLock

public TinyLock ( ) : System
return	System