Scaling problem of HashMap (introduced with alternative hashing) (original) (raw)

Eric McCorkle eric.mccorkle at oracle.com
Thu Dec 27 19:57:32 UTC 2012


It looks like its just generating a unique random seed for each HashMap. It seems like that could be made thread-local.

On Dec 27, 2012, at 2:16 PM, Zhong Yu <zhong.j.yu at gmail.com> wrote:

Reported by the SO question

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14010906 the HashMap constructor contains a CAS, which is kind of surprising. Could it be removed? transient final int hashSeed = sun.misc.Hashing.randomHashSeed(this); // CAS Zhong Yu



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