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jpollock
11 days ago
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Laws of Software Engineering
You are communicating with future readers of the code. The presence of ConcurrentHashMap will lead future engineers into believing the code is threadsafe. This isn't true, and believing it is dangerous.
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tombert
11 days ago
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No, they'll believe that that specific map is thread safe.
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