Dealing With Contention medium
To reduce contention, you change a single global lock to many smaller locks (e.g., locking a specific Hash Bucket instead of the whole Map). This is:
- A Lock Striping (Fine-grained locking).
- B Recursive Locking.
- C Deadlocking.
- D Priority Locking.
Answer: A. Lock Striping (Fine-grained locking).
Java's `ConcurrentHashMap` uses this. It allows multiple threads to write simultaneously to different segments.
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