Enhance Concurrency
I could build a moat filled with alligators around my house to provide safety, but that would make it a challenge for me to get in and out each day. Overly conservative synchronization is like that; it can provide thread safety but makes code slow. We want to ensure that the synchronization happens at the right level for each class so we don’t compromise thread safety but still enjoy good concurrency.
Synchronizing instances is fairly common but has some problems. For one, its scope is the entire object, and that becomes the level of granularity for concurrency. This limits us to at most one synchronized operation on the entire object at any time. If all the operations on the object are mutually exclusive, such as add and ...
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