You seem to be worried that writing to part of a structure somehow "dirties" the rest so it's no longer thread-safe. That's not how it works, a structure is really just some data laid out contiguously ...

The ConcurrentStack and ConcurrentQueue classes, lock-free and thread-safe implementations of the Stack and Queue classes, build thread safe collections in .Net Thread safe collections were first ...

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