CSharp - Using SpinLocks
Example
From - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15164408/lock-free-concurrent-queue
This code snippet is from ConcurrentQueue implementation.
internal bool TryPeek(out T result) { result = default(T); int lowLocal = Low; if (lowLocal > High) return false; SpinWait spin = new SpinWait(); while (m_state[lowLocal] == 0) { spin.SpinOnce(); } result = m_array[lowLocal]; return true; }
Also see - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh228603.aspx