Should I Use Synchronization?
Synchronization Is Usually Needed When You Are Sharing Data Between Multiple Invocations and There Is a Possibility That the Data Would Be Modified Resulting...
Synchronization is usually needed when you are sharing data between multiple invocations and there is a possibility that the data would be modified resulting in inconsistency. If the data is read-only then you dont need to synchronize.
Why should we use synchronization?
We need to synchronize the shared resources to ensure that at a time only one thread is able to access the shared resource. If an Object is shared by multiple threads then there is need of synchronization in order to avoid the Object's state to be getting corrupted. Synchronization is needed when Object is mutable.
What is the disadvantage of synchronization?
The main advantage of synchronization is that by using the synchronized keyword we can resolve the date inconsistency problem. But the main disadvantage of a synchronized keyword is it increases the waiting time of the thread and affects the performance of the system.
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