Hi, Please review this small change to remove an obsolete optimization: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8176863 http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~iklam/jdk10/8176863_remove_hashtable_reverse.v01/ This is legacy code from JDK 1.5 that doesn't do what it intends to do and is no longer relevant. Thanks - Ioi