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Why use HashMap instead of nested loops?
Tests whether you connect HashMap's O(1) average lookup to collapsing an O(n^2) nested-loop comparison into an O(n) single pass -- trading a bit of memory for hash-bucket lookups instead of re-scanning the second collection for every element of the first.
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