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When would you use TreeMap or LinkedHashMap over a plain HashMap?

TreeMap when you need keys in sorted order (O(log n), definitely slower than HashMap); LinkedHashMap when you need to preserve insertion order while keeping HashMap's O(1) average lookup, just with a small extra pointer-overhead per entry.

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