Possible HashMap update

[Mike Duigou]

Hi Doug;

Several minor recent cleanups and proposed cleanups in HashMap made me wonder how things are progressing on this work. Do you feel it's nearly ready to integrate into the jdk8 repos? What additional work remains? Are you tracking changes going in to the jdk8 repos?

Mike

On Jul 8 2013, at 08:24 , Doug Lea wrote:

> 
> On 07/05/13 04:55, Paul Sandoz wrote:
>>> I played with these in the lambda repo.
>>> 
>>> I needed to make the following additional change for things to compile:
>>> 
>>> --- a/src/share/classes/java/io/ExpiringCache.java    Fri Jul 05 10:04:00 2013 +0200
>>> +++ b/src/share/classes/java/io/ExpiringCache.java    Fri Jul 05 10:45:10 2013 +0200
>>> ...
> 
> Thanks to those chasing this down, now recorded as a CR at:
>  http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8017219
> 
> Some might think this is a fun javac corner case to read about,
> but for present purposes, the moral is that the name of
> the internal LinkedHashMap.Entry class, even though it is never
> exported, cannot be changed without impacting re-compilability of
> some external usages. Fine. We can cope.
> 
> For people still following along, see updates at...
> 
> http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/jsr166/src/dl/java/util/HashMap.java?view=log
> 
> http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/jsr166/src/dl/java/util/LinkedHashMap.java?view=log