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    <p>I have a challenging question for you big experts. This has not yet a practical usage in my code, but comes from an idea I just had.</p> <p>If I have an <code>IList&lt;T&gt;</code>, how do I implement an enumerator that randomly walks the list and that can be used by multiple threads simultaneously?</p> <p>For example, if I have elements <code>A</code>, <code>B</code>, <code>C</code>, <code>D</code>, <code>E</code>, <code>F</code> and two concurrent threads performing a <code>for-each</code> loop on the list with a ReaderLock acquired (so I'm sure nobody else will touch the list thus causing an exception), I would like their respective cycles to return, for example, <code>B</code>, <code>E</code>, <code>C</code>, <code>D</code>, <code>A</code>, <code>F</code> and <code>E</code>, <code>B</code>, <code>D</code>, <code>C</code>, <code>A</code>, <code>F</code>.</p> <p>The reason why I need this is because I need to place locks on <code>List&lt;SslStream&gt;</code> elements to send data to clients, <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.security.sslstream.aspx" rel="nofollow">because SslStream is not thread-safe</a>. Picking elements randomly (but making sure I pick <strong>them all</strong>) reduces the lock conflict probabilities and is supposed to improve I/O-bound operations performance.</p> <p>Please keep in mind that even if I told you <strong>why</strong> I need such an enumerator, I still like challenge. There can be other ways of sending the same data to multiple clients, but my question remains the same :) :)</p>
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    1. COIt's okay that you like challenges. Though, there's a possibility that no one comes with a good solution with these constraints. Be ready for that :)
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