Java HashMap sometimes returning wrong value in some threads
We are not using one HashMap across threads (yes that is bad for many reasons). Each thread has its own HashMap.
We have a class that extends from Thread. In Thread.run() we create a HashMap, set a key/value pair in it, and pass that HashMap to a method. That method retrieves the value from the HashMap, inserts it into a string, and returns the string.
Sometimes the returned string has a different value (still in Thread.run()). This only occurs on hardware with 3+ physical cores. And it has only happened twice (before we added logging to help us find exactly what is going on of course).
Any idea why this would occur.