Lock-Based vs Lock-Free Concurrent AlgorithmsLast week I attended a review session of the new JSR166 StampedLock run by Heinz Kabutz at the excellent JCrete unconference. StampedLock is an attempt to address the contention issues that arise in a system when multiple readers concurrently access shared state. StampedLock is designed to perform better than ReentrantReadWriteLock by taking an optimistic read approach. While attending the session
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