This month’s Under the Hood looks at thread synchronization in both the Java language and the Java virtual machine (JVM). This article is the last in the long series of bytecode articles I began ...

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Java’s synchronization mechanism Java provides a synchronization mechanism for preventing more than one thread from executing code in one or more critical code sections at any point in time.