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Avoid ThreadStatic, ThreadLocal and AsyncLocal. Float the state instead!

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In the article on The dangers of ThreadLocal I explained how the introduction of async/await forces us to unlearn what we perceived to be true in the “old world” when Threads dominated our software lingo. We’re now at a point where we need to re-evaluate how we approach thread safety in our codebases while using the async/await constructs. In today’s post-thread era, we should strive to remove all thread (task-local) state and let the state float into the code which...

The dangers of ThreadLocal

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Languages and frameworks evolve. We as developers have to learn new things constantly and unlearn already-learned knowledge. Speaking for myself, unlearning is the most difficult part of continuous learning. When I first came into contact with multi-threaded applications in .NET, I stumbled over the ThreadStatic attribute. I made a mental note that this attribute is particularly helpful when you have static fields that should not be shared between threads. At the time that the .NET Framework 4...

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