Question on layer/peeling

[Vitaly Davidovich]

Not sure that's ideal as the implementation may not be using entry objects
to store things (e.g. open addressed version with parallel arrays for keys
and values); this would cause the get method to allocate an entry for each
get operation.  If the entry impl is a value type it'll be boxed since it's
assigned to an interface.

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On Jan 7, 2015 3:03 AM, "Ali Ebrahimi" <ali.ebrahimi1781 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Or add method
> Map.Entry<K,V> getEntry(key)
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:15 AM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com>
> wrote:
>
>> By the way, C# solves this by having TryGet type of methods that return a
>>> boolean indicating success (I.e. found mapping) and set an out parameter
>>> to
>>> the value found.  You'd need a lightweight tuple or multi return to do
>>> the
>>> same in java,  I think.
>>>
>>
>> Right, there's two ways to fix get():
>>  - Using the getOrDefault(key, sentinel) // added in Java 8
>>  - Using some sort of optional-like return type
>>
>> Not quite at that part of the road yet.
>>
>>
>
>
> --
>
> Best Regards,
> Ali Ebrahimi
>