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If two threads access and modify the same HashMap concurrently, what can go wrong?
Tests whether you know beyond simple data corruption, concurrent resizing on a plain HashMap can create a circular reference in a bucket's linked list, putting a later get() into an infinite loop that pegs CPU -- the classic reason HashMap is explicitly documented as not thread-safe.
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