Sized

Brian Goetz brian.goetz at oracle.com
Fri Nov 2 15:22:24 PDT 2012


> Of course, some collections, like the key set of a ConcurrentHashMap,
> don't know their size any more than a garden-variety Iterable does.

That's not exactly true.  In the absence of interference from concurrent 
modification, the key set of a CHM absolutely knows its size.  It's just 
that in the presence of interference, the reported size may be stale by 
the time you receive it.


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