Gerhard Froehlich wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Berin Loritsch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 9:41 PM
>>To: Avalon Developers List
>>Subject: Re: We desperately need an efficient threadsafe hashmap
>>
>>
>>Gerhard Froehlich wrote:
>>
>>>PS: I just implemented a size method in my class
>>>here.
>>>
>>>Interest?
>>>
>>I haven't run accross a need for size().
>>
>
> Hmm you never know...for me it was just a exercise...
>
>
>>If you do, processing should be something like keySet()
>>
>
> Hehe I did nearly the same impl. But without synchronized.
> Is this really needed?
You can run into issues when the bucket is changing while you are reading it.
size() should not be a frequently called operation--just like keySet()
is not a frequently called operation. (It is only called on init and
shutdown).
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