parallel foreach loop - odd behavior

Question

The code below simply creates a List> of random numbers and then calculates the cumulative sum of each list in a parallel foreach loop. Why do I get less than \'numLists\' e

Answer 1

List<T> is indeed not thread safe, so cumsupDataP.Add(...) is dropping data in unpredictable ways.

Replace that line with:

ConcurrentBag<List<double>> cumsumDataP = new ConcurrentBag<List<double>>();

and it will all work. Note that ConcurrentBag<T> is unordered, but that is fine because you have no way of predicting the order from the threads anyway ;p