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How do you make a HashMap thread-safe without using ConcurrentHashMap?
Tests whether you know Collections.synchronizedMap() wraps every operation in a single lock (coarser and slower than ConcurrentHashMap's striped locking) and that manual external synchronization is also required around iteration.
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