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When can a Stream pipeline actually be slower than a plain for-loop?
For small collections or complex multi-step transformations, Stream's pipeline setup overhead can exceed a simple loop's cost — one real benchmark showed a complex stream at 174ms versus a plain loop's baseline, while a parallelStream() version was actually the fastest at 23ms when CPU cores were available.
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