How Does ConcurrentHashMap in Java Achieve Efficient Thread Safety?

ByteCook
Dev Genius
Published in
8 min readMay 7, 2024

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Why is ConcurrentHashMap needed?

Hashtable itself is relatively inefficient because its implementation basically adds “synchronized” to various methods like put, get, and size. In simple terms, this means that all concurrent operations compete for the same lock. While one thread is performing a synchronized operation, other…

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