Multi-stream: a record with a mutable component is a broken Map key

Records give you equals and hashCode from their components, which makes a composite join key trivial - unless a component is a mutable List. Change it after the put and the entry is unreachable from either key, while size() still counts it.

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Published 2026-09-20

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