Practice Thread Confinement and Local Variables - 23.9 | 23. Java Memory Model and Thread Safety | Advanced Programming
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Thread Confinement and Local Variables

23.9 - Thread Confinement and Local Variables

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What is thread confinement?

💡 Hint: Think about how variables can be scoped.

Question 2 Easy

How do you create a ThreadLocal variable?

💡 Hint: What method do you recall for initialization?

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Question 1

What does thread confinement refer to?

Data accessible by multiple threads
Data confined to a single thread
Data that is shared

💡 Hint: Think of how visibility impacts thread safety.

Question 2

True or False: ThreadLocal variables are shared among all threads.

True
False

💡 Hint: Recall how ThreadLocal operates.

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Challenge 1 Hard

Design a simple Java application that uses ThreadLocal to maintain user session data for each thread. Explain the benefits and disadvantages of using ThreadLocal in this context.

💡 Hint: What aspects of thread safety are you considering?

Challenge 2 Hard

Explain how ThreadLocal variables can cause memory leaks if not managed correctly. Provide a scenario illustrating this.

💡 Hint: Think about what happens when threads are reused.

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