Benefit from computing String Hash at compile time?
Alexander Veit
alexander.veit at gmx.net
Mon Jan 4 15:01:34 PST 2010
Hi Jonathan,
> The fact is, the spec is set in stone, *and* covered by conformance
> tests. The chance of the spec changing is vanishingly small, and the
> conformance tests ensure that all implementations of Java must follow
> the spec.
Calculating String#hashCode() is quite costly in terms of CPU cycles. If a
better performing method with comparable quality would come to our
knowledge, the chance of changing the spec would probably be greater than e
> 0.
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Cheers,
Alex
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