Thomas (boggyb) wrote,
Thomas
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The Java HashMap class is not synchronised (and that is explicitly documented). This results in... interesting behaviour if two or more threads try to modify a HashMap at the same time.

Apparently, one of the failure modes is for the put() method to get stuck in an infinite loop.
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