Keith Seitz wrote:
Okay, here'e where the weirdness starts. The ID manager (not yet
submitted) keeps a table which map objects to IDs. This is used to
quickly lookup Objects to see if they have an ID associated with them
already.
The ReferenceKey class is a SoftReference class with some logic to allow
the ID manager to clean-up garbage-collected Objects and their
ReferenceKeys.
Coupla questions. Disclaimer: I haven't really been paying attention,
so ignore me if these are stupid irrelevant..
- Could java.util.WeakHashMap be used instead of writing your own?
See java.lang.VMString.intern() for an example.
- Do you mean to use hashCode()/equals() or System.identityHashCode()/==?
-Archie
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