Introduction
The goal of this article is to show the problem of race condition while execution of GetOrAdd(TKey, Func<TKey, TValue>) method. The described problem has a few solutions. I will focus on one I found at StackOverflow, and I will explain why this solution works.
Double execution problem
Not everyone realizes that GetOrAdd(TKey, Func<TKey, TValue>) can call multiple times the delegate resolving value for a single key. It is easy to prove this thesis with the following code.