Dead code. Deleted. BTW, if you're looking through the codebase you should probably start here: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArchitectureInternals
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 5:14 AM, gabriele renzi <rff....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > while trying to get a grasp of the codebase in cassandra, I run > FindBugs on it and got a complaint about this code in > org.apache.cassandra.utils.FastHashMap.containsValue(Object) > > """ > // special case null values so that we don't have to > // perform null checks before every call to equals() > if (null == val) > { > for (int i = vals.length; i-- > 0;) > { > if ((set[i] != FREE && set[i] != REMOVED) && val == vals[i]) > { > return true; > } > } > } > """ > > as Findbugs would prefer the last condition to be spelled as > null == vals[i] > > I wanted to look around to check this was not a bug, but then I > wondered what is this class for. Apparently all of FastHashMap, > FastObjechHash, FastLinkedHashMap, and FastHash are never used > anywhere in the code: > > $ ack 'Fast(Linked|Hash|Object)' -l > src/java/org/apache/cassandra/utils/FastHash.java > src/java/org/apache/cassandra/utils/FastHashMap.java > src/java/org/apache/cassandra/utils/FastLinkedHashMap.java > src/java/org/apache/cassandra/utils/FastObjectHash.java > $ > > > Does anyone have an explanation for this (e.g. they are loaded by > reflection by concatenating strings) or are they just remnants of old > code? >