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A Stream-based operation is slow in production. How would you identify and optimize the bottleneck?

Tests whether you profile before guessing -- checking for accidental boxing/unboxing, unnecessary intermediate collection materialization, misuse of parallelStream() on I/O-bound work, and whether a plain loop would actually be faster for the data size involved.

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