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5comments:

Anonymous August26,2013at8:30PM
Oneofthegoodquestiononmultithreading,IhaverecentlyfacedinaJavainterview.Afteraskingsome
basic question on thread and synchronization e.g. wait, notify, creating thread, stopping thread, thread
pooletc.Heasked,Howdoyoureducecontentionbetweenthreads?That'sareallygoodquestion.AsIwas
familiar with some techniques of reducing contention among multiple thread, I was quick to bring lock
strippingconcept,whichsplitsalockintomultiplee.g.ReadWritelockhasseparatelockforreadingand
writing.Thiscansignificantlyreducecontention.Anotherwaytoreducethreadcontentionisminimizing
useofsynchronizedkeyword,insteadusingatomicandvolatilevariables.
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AaronFinch August29,2013at8:09PM
Goodquestion.Someanswersarereallygood,especiallywiththebusyspinning.Keepitup.
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Anonymous January25,2014at11:19PM
youranswertospiningisnotcompletelytrue.youcompletlyignorethejavamemorymodelwhichseems
likeanimportandparthere.itonlyguranteesyoutoseethecorrectvalueifaccessedinsyncblock,orsince
1.5withsometypesusingvolatile.butsecondproblemwithnotsynchronizingistheasifserialsemanticof
jvmexecutions.thismightleadyoutosituationswherethereferencetoaobjecthasalreadybeensetbut
theconstructorhasnotbeenrun.soevenwhenyourcheckforref!=nullwillbetrueyoucouldgeterror.
cheers,peter
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AshishThakran July25,2014at1:36AM
Threads can be implemented by extending Thread class, implementing Runnable interface and Callable
interface.

If you want to return an value or throw an exception then use Callable otherwise use Runnable as
extendingThreadclasslimitstheClassinheritanceandalsomakestheprocessheavy.

Belowlinkcanbeusefulifyouwanttofindmore:
DifferentwaystoimplementThreadsinJava
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Kabir December17,2014at1:46AM
Fewmorequestions
Ifyouareaskedtowritecodeforsynchronizingbetweentwothreadsor100threads?whichcodewillbe
hardertowriteandwhy?

Tellmethreeproblemsyouusuallyfaceonconcurrentenvironment.

WhathappendifyouaddtaskintoFixedthreadpoolandworkerqueueisfull?
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