Adaptive locking in elastic threading systems

A computer program product comprising:

• one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage devices and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more non-transitory storage devices, the program instructions executable by a processor, the program instructions comprising sets of instructions for:
• determining a number of threads for executing a compiled object of a computing process that comprises a set of one or more preamble instructions that is (i) a set of locking instruction for ensuring exclusive access of a computing resource by one thread of the computing process or (ii) a set of placeholder instructions in place of the locking instruction;
• upon determining that the number of threads is one, altering the compiled object by replacing the set of preamble instructions with the set of placeholder instructions;
• upon determining that the number of threads is two or more, altering the compiled object by replacing the set of preamble instruction with the set of locking instruction;
• and
• providing the altered compiled object for execution by the processor.

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• receiving a compiled object of a computing process, the compiled object comprising a set of locking instructions for ensuring exclusive access of a resource by the computing process;
• determining a thread count for the computing process;
• upon determining that the thread count indicates that a single thread is allocated to execute the computing process, patching the compiled object with a set of no-operation (NOP) instructions in place of the set of locking instructions;
• and
• executing the computing process according to the patched compiled object.