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Is ConcurrentHashMap fail-fast?

Tests whether you know ConcurrentHashMap's iterators are weakly consistent, not fail-fast -- they never throw ConcurrentModificationException and may or may not reflect modifications made during iteration, a deliberate trade-off for safe concurrent access instead of the strict fail-fast guarantee HashMap's iterator gives.

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