advancedMultithreading & Concurrency
When would you choose LongAdder over AtomicInteger?
Under high contention with many threads incrementing the same counter, AtomicInteger's single compare-and-swap variable becomes a bottleneck. LongAdder internally spreads updates across multiple cells and sums them only when you read the total, trading a slightly more expensive read for much cheaper concurrent writes.
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