Why doesn't Stream.limit work as expected in this snippet?

Question

List integer = Stream.generate(new Supplier() {
    int i = 0 ;

    @Override
    public Integer get() {
        return ++i;
    }
}).         


        

Answer 1

It will finish, after the Supplier overflows and starts generating negative numbers. The resulting list will contain:

[1, 2, 3, 4, -2147483648, -2147483647, -2147483646, -2147483645, -2147483644, -2147483643]

The reason for this is in other answers. On my i7 machine it took 40 seconds to complete.