what is the best datatype for..

[Marc Gravell]

As an aside - with some luck it could also elect *not* to start a new
thread until the group's stack is full an needs pumping... then at the
end the primary thread could mop up any groups without threads (or
even share them among the threads that *do* exist, but this is more
complex).

That way, you don't get idling threads for things that you only see
once or twice...

Marc

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

As an aside - with some luck it could also elect *not* to start a new
thread until the group's stack is full an needs pumping... then at the
end the primary thread could mop up any groups without threads (or
even share them among the threads that *do* exist, but this is more
complex).

That way, you don't get idling threads for things that you only see
once or twice...

That's an interesting idea - I suspect it would make the implementation
pretty nasty though.

I think I'll have a go at implementing it the naive "thread per group"
way, for the sake of interest, and write a blog post about it... when
I've time, of course.