Brian Goetz extols the virtues of ConcurrentMaps in his book, and the new computeIfAbsent function seems like it would make it very easy to swap this in for the OpalCaches.
Superficially, [R. thinks] this could cut down on the chance of deadlocks and maybe improve performance, but [he]'d have to think harder about the possible race conditions.
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Brian Goetz extols the virtues of
ConcurrentMaps in his book, and the newcomputeIfAbsentfunction seems like it would make it very easy to swap this in for theOpalCaches.Superficially, [R. thinks] this could cut down on the chance of deadlocks and maybe improve performance, but [he]'d have to think harder about the possible race conditions.