Reader beware: this is a Hash* (HashCode, HashMap, hashTable, HashSet) post. hashCode is used for bucketing in Hash implementations like HashMap, HashTable, HashSet, etc. A hashCode is a number ...
While the Hashtable was part of the initial Java release over two decades ago, the HashMap is the correct key-value store to use today. One key HashMap vs. Hashtable difference is the fact that the ...
That being stated, there are situations in which the hash code returned by System.identityHashCode (Object) is “unique enough” for the problem at hand. For example, Brian Goetz et al. demonstrate use ...
Hash Table Benchmarking Suite This project is a Java-based tool designed to analyze and compare the efficiency of different collision resolution strategies in Hash Tables. It focuses on how these ...
I previously blogged on the Apache Commons ToStringBuilder and discussed how it takes away much of the tedium normally associated with implementing toString methods. While implementing toString() does ...
public void addDirectory(String configInfo) { String virtualDir = ""; String actualDir = ""; /** Parse the configInfo into two strings, a virtual * directory and its ...