Thread-Safe
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Thread-safe refers to the property of a program or data structure that can be accessed and manipulated safely by multiple threads concurrently without causing data corruption or unexpected behavior. In a thread-safe context, operations performed by one thread do not interfere with operations performed by other threads, ensuring consistency and correctness of the program's behavior. Achieving thread safety often involves using synchronization mechanisms such as locks, atomic operations, or immutable data structures to coordinate access to shared resources among multiple threads. Thread safety is crucial in multi-threaded programming environments to prevent race conditions, deadlocks, and other concurrency-related issues that can lead to unpredictable program behavior or data corruption. Many data structures and libraries in Java provide thread-safe implementations or support thread-safe usage through proper synchronization techniques to facilitate safe concurrent programming.