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When should you avoid using parallelStream()?
Tests whether you know to avoid it for small collections (splitting/merging overhead exceeds the gain), I/O-bound work (it shares the same commonPool as other parallel streams app-wide, so one blocking call starves everyone), and operations needing strict ordering or mutable shared state.
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