Benefit from computing String Hash at compile time?

[Alexander Veit]

Hi Jonathan,

> The fact is, the spec is set in stone, *and* covered by conformance 
> tests.  The chance of the spec changing is vanishingly small, and the 
> conformance tests ensure that all implementations of Java must follow 
> the spec.

Calculating String#hashCode() is quite costly in terms of CPU cycles. If a
better performing method with comparable quality would come to our
knowledge, the chance of changing the spec would probably be greater than e
> 0.


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Cheers,
Alex