Why can't Java constructors be synchronized?

Question

According to the Java Language Specification, constructors cannot be marked synchronized because other threads cannot see the object being created until the thread creating

Answer 1

The question has been raised on a discussion list used by the writers of the Java concurrent API and the Java Memory Model. Several answers were given, in particular Hans Boehm replied:

Some of us (myself included IIRC) actually argued during the Java memory model deliberations that synchronized constructors should be allowed. Now I could go either way on it. Client code shouldn't use races to communicate the reference, so it shouldn't matter. But if you don't trust the clients of [your class], I think synchronized constructors could possibly be useful. And that was much of the reasoning behind final field semantics. [...] As David said, you can use synchronized blocks.