This question evaluates a candidate's understanding of Java concurrency primitives and concurrent collection implementations, focusing on thread-safety, synchronization mechanisms, lock-free techniques, and blocking versus non-blocking queue behavior.
An interviewer asks you conceptual questions about Java's concurrency primitives.
Explain in detail:
ConcurrentHashMap
is implemented internally and how it achieves thread-safe access and high concurrency. Compare it with
HashMap
and
Collections.synchronizedMap
.
ConcurrentLinkedQueue
,
LinkedBlockingQueue
, and
ArrayBlockingQueue
) work internally and how they provide thread safety and, when relevant, blocking behavior.
Discuss the underlying data structures, locking or lock-free techniques, and typical use cases for each.
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