RFR 8023463 Update HashMap and LinkedHashMap to use bins/buckets or trees (red/black)

[Remi Forax]

On 08/27/2013 03:51 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:00 AM, Paul Sandoz <paul.sandoz at oracle.com> wrote:
>
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>> Note that j.u. classes are quite inconsistent in this respect to using
>> diamonds and @Overrides. My preference is to do a sweeping change to all
>> such code.
>
> For jsr166, we continue to maintain some support for jdk6 and use javac6 in
> places, and so we've been known to de-<> for portability.   We're also not
> huge fans of using @Override pervasively.

 From a reader perspective, @Override is great to figure out which part 
of the code
is part of the supertypes contract and which part is specific to the class.

Rémi