diff --git a/runtime/Java/src/org/antlr/v4/runtime/atn/LexerATNSimulator.java b/runtime/Java/src/org/antlr/v4/runtime/atn/LexerATNSimulator.java
index 8742d8a3e..9b4549cd9 100644
--- a/runtime/Java/src/org/antlr/v4/runtime/atn/LexerATNSimulator.java
+++ b/runtime/Java/src/org/antlr/v4/runtime/atn/LexerATNSimulator.java
@@ -162,16 +162,11 @@ public class LexerATNSimulator extends ATNSimulator {
 		int mark = input.mark();
 		traceBeginMatch(input, mode);
 		try {
-			synchronized (decisionToDFA[mode]) {
-				// Synchronizing on the mode DFA causes a lot of contention
-				// between shared lexers in multiple threads, but is the
-				// simplest safety measure. We can start with it.
-				if ( decisionToDFA[mode].s0==null ) {
-					return matchATN(input);
-				}
-				else {
-					return execDFA(input, decisionToDFA[mode].s0);
-				}
+			if ( decisionToDFA[mode].s0==null ) {
+				return matchATN(input);
+			}
+			else {
+				return execDFA(input, decisionToDFA[mode].s0);
 			}
 		}
 		finally {
diff --git a/runtime/Java/src/org/antlr/v4/runtime/atn/ParserATNSimulator.java b/runtime/Java/src/org/antlr/v4/runtime/atn/ParserATNSimulator.java
index 828e09dad..fd807be25 100755
--- a/runtime/Java/src/org/antlr/v4/runtime/atn/ParserATNSimulator.java
+++ b/runtime/Java/src/org/antlr/v4/runtime/atn/ParserATNSimulator.java
@@ -196,28 +196,19 @@ public class ParserATNSimulator<Symbol extends Token> extends ATNSimulator {
 				}
 			}
 			// Now we are certain to have a specific decision's DFA
-			// Synchronize on the DFA so that nobody can read or write
-			// to it while we updated during ATN simulation
-			synchronized (decisionToDFA[decision]) {
-				return predictATN(dfa, input, outerContext);
-			}
+			return predictATN(dfa, input, outerContext);
 		}
 
 		// We can start with an existing DFA
-		synchronized (decisionToDFA[decision]) {
-			// Only enter the DFA simulation if nobody else is playing with it.
-			// This blocks multiple readonly simulations of the same DFA but that's
-			// unlikely to happen a lot
-			int m = input.mark();
-			int index = input.index();
-			try {
-				int alt = execDFA(dfa, dfa.s0, input, index, outerContext);
-				return alt;
-			}
-			finally {
-				input.seek(index);
-				input.release(m);
-			}
+		int m = input.mark();
+		int index = input.index();
+		try {
+			int alt = execDFA(dfa, dfa.s0, input, index, outerContext);
+			return alt;
+		}
+		finally {
+			input.seek(index);
+			input.release(m);
 		}
 	}
 
diff --git a/runtime/Java/src/org/antlr/v4/runtime/atn/PredictionContextCache.java b/runtime/Java/src/org/antlr/v4/runtime/atn/PredictionContextCache.java
index ee5da0a6a..04d7b1529 100644
--- a/runtime/Java/src/org/antlr/v4/runtime/atn/PredictionContextCache.java
+++ b/runtime/Java/src/org/antlr/v4/runtime/atn/PredictionContextCache.java
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ public class PredictionContextCache {
 		return cache.get(ctx);
 	}
 
-	public synchronized int size() {
+	public int size() {
 		return cache.size();
 	}
 }