Can(should?) Lazy be used as a caching technique?

Well, it's not thread-safe in that one thread could still see the old value after another thread sees the new value after invalidation - because the first thread could have not seen the change to cachedAttribute . In theory, that situation could perpetuate forever, although it's pretty unlikely :).

CachedAttribute is a shared resource that needs to be protected from concurrent modification.

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