Why Interviewers Prefer ReentrantLock Over synchronized: Underlying Mechanisms and Performance Gains
In ultra‑high‑concurrency scenarios, synchronized becomes a bottleneck, while ReentrantLock can boost QPS by about 30% thanks to its active AQS state management, avoidance of biased‑lock revocation, more flexible spinning, and richer APIs, and the article outlines when to choose each.
