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On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:52 PM, R�mi Forax <forax@univ-mlv.fr> wrote:

It's not a good idea to have a hashCode() that allocate objects,
at least until escape analysis is implemented in all VMs.

Agree with Joe--these methods don't carry their weight. If the allocation is too much to bear, it's easy enough to write the hash by hand. Plus, it won't have the overhead of a method invocation. ;-)�

That's not to say I don't think you should ever do this.

Bob