Faster HashMap implementation

Florian Weimer fweimer at bfk.de
Mon Jun 8 16:13:43 UTC 2009


* Doug Lea:

> I once instrumented some of the "reference workload" usages
> and found that over half of the HashMaps/Hashtables had
> a max 3 or fewer elements during their lifetimes.
> So on average using your version will likely increase
> application footprints. It seems possible to deal with
> this though. For example, you might consider separately
> allocating the back-half of index array only when needed.

Or don't use the hash structure at all and just do a sequential
search.  Then the index array isn't needed at all.

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