ConcurrentHashMap to the Rescue
February 2, 2008
It was only a matter of time before I needed a Thread-safe Map. Looking at the synchronization wrappers for the Java Collections framework, I couldn’t help but be disappointed. The wrapper classes provide external synchronization on the entire Collection. That means that any read or update method is locking — one thing in at a time. What a performance bottleneck!
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