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Understanding ThreadLocal vs Thread in Java
By Sachin Gupta10 min read
A Java concurrency note on when to reach for Thread versus ThreadLocal, how per-thread isolation avoids shared-state bugs like the classic SimpleDateFormat race, and how the two work together for thread-safe code.
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