// is likely to be a bug anyway.

    // N.B. All writes to the list and the next pointers must have happened before the above
    // synchronized block, so we can iterate the list without the lock held here.
    RunnableExecutorPair reversedList = null;
    while (list != null) {
      RunnableExecutorPair tmp = list;
      list = list.next;
      tmp.next = reversedList;