Concurrency basics · interview question
Why might Collections.synchronizedMap become a bottleneck in a high-concurrency application?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer
D. It locks the entire map on every operation.
Why
Collections.synchronizedMap locks the entire map for every operation, which can lead to performance bottlenecks in high-concurrency scenarios as only one thread can access the map at a time.
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