On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 17:02 +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> This patch is needed to run Jython 2.5.2 RC 4 under JamVM and GNU Classpath
> CVS
> HEAD. It turns out Jythin bootstrap is bit hairy and assumes HashMap.put()
> checks for hashCode equality before invoking Object.equals().
> [...]
> 2011-02-22 Pekka Enberg <penb...@kernel.org>
>
> * java/util/HashMap:
> + (put): Check for key hashCode equality before invoking
> + Object.equals() to fix compatibility issue with Jython.
That seems a fine optimization in itself. But any application depending
on it is pretty ewwww :{ O well, that is how it is I guess. We had
something similar in the initialization order of eclipse, where they
depended on equals being called in a particular direction. sigh.
Thanks,
Mark
