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A Caveat To Using Read-Write Locks

By Amandeep Singh ⋅ May 5, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Bruce Tate, author of “Bitter Java“, referred to my post on “Implementing Read-Write Locks in Java” in his book to explain the possible performance optimization one can achieve by using read-write locks instead of applying “synchronized” (Java’s mutex). However, it should be noted that blind application of read-write locks (rwlocks) can have its own [...]

Implementing Read-Write Locks in Java

By Amandeep Singh ⋅ November 4, 2007 ⋅ One comment

ead-write lock allows multiple threads to acquire a read lock provided no other thread currently has a write lock on the same object. A thread can acquire a write lock if no other thread owns either a read lock or a write lock.

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