When is ReaderWriterLockSlim better than a simple lock?

Question

I\'m doing a very silly benchmark on the ReaderWriterLock with this code, where reading happens 4x more often than writting:

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Answer 1

Uncontested locks take on the order of microseconds to acquire, so your execution time will be dwarfed by your calls to Sleep.