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* concurrent collection is thread-safe, but not governed by a |
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* single exclusion lock. In the particular case of |
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* ConcurrentHashMap, it safely permits any number of |
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* concurrent reads as well as a tunable number of concurrent |
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* writes. "Synchronized" classes can be useful when you need |
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