Loading classes with many methods is very expensive

[Peter Levart]

On 10/30/2014 10:29 AM, Peter Levart wrote:
> I might get away with excluding seq from hashCode computation and only 
> use it in equals(). This way Key(s) could be modified in-place 
> (hashCode would not change, entry would stay in same bucket), it would 
> just become equal to some other Key. Modification operations would 
> keep the invariant that there are no duplicate Key(s) at any time in 
> the Map. All entries sharing same method signature would end-up in the 
> same bucket (and maybe share it with entries that just happen to have 
> the same hashCode mod capacity) and we would get a similar linked list 
> of entries as with previous approach - only without another level of 
> indirection... 

That would not work. I would have to have the Key object accessible. 
Since Map does not have a getKey(key) operation, I would have to store 
the Key as a value too. And we're back to MethodList approach...

Peter