Re: Any Checkstyle users?

From: Roedy Green <my_email_is_posted_on_my_website@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 19:56:06 GMT

On 31 Jan 2006 16:04:07 GMT, "Chris Uppal"
<chris.uppal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote, quoted or indirectly
quoted someone who said :

>In point of fact, the implementation rounds the capacity up to a power
>of two.

See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/hashmap.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/hashtable.html

Look for the hammerhead "gotcha" shark.

That rounding gives HashMaps a bit of extra slop, perhaps giving
HashMap an undeserved reputation for being much faster that Hashtable.
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- Re: Any Checkstyle users?
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- Re: Any Checkstyle users?
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