asmhatreandClaude Sonnet 5 55ee850a75 synchronizers: CountDownLatch vs CyclicBarrier vs Phaser vs Semaphore
One three-round worker pipeline implemented with CountDownLatch (one latch
per round), CyclicBarrier (reusable, with a barrier action), and Phaser
(reusable, plus dynamic mid-run registration), alongside Semaphore solving
the genuinely different problem of bounding concurrent access. Covers
timeout behavior (CyclicBarrier permanently breaks on one timeout, Phaser
doesn't) and virtual-thread compatibility, including the corrected finding
that Object.wait() releases its monitor and never pinned, unlike
Thread.sleep() inside synchronized.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FhzLY5p6okFva3qsnsRyvM
2026-09-30 06:43:52 +00:00

java-core-examples

Runnable companion code for ankurm.com's Java-core / concurrency series. One Maven module per article; each module's own README has that article's version table, quickstart, and traps.

Module Post
jmm The Java Memory Model Explained: volatile, happens-before, and Why Your Double-Checked Lock Failed
locks synchronized vs ReentrantLock vs StampedLock: Benchmarks and a Decision Table
atomics Java Atomics and VarHandle: CAS, LongAdder, and When Atomics Beat Locks
vt-pinning Diagnosing Virtual Thread Pinning in Production: JFR Events, jcmd, and Real Fixes
synchronizers CountDownLatch vs CyclicBarrier vs Phaser vs Semaphore in Java

License

MIT - see LICENSE.

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