* Doug Lea: > I once instrumented some of the "reference workload" usages > and found that over half of the HashMaps/Hashtables had > a max 3 or fewer elements during their lifetimes. > So on average using your version will likely increase > application footprints. It seems possible to deal with > this though. For example, you might consider separately > allocating the back-half of index array only when needed.
Or don't use the hash structure at all and just do a sequential search. Then the index array isn't needed at all. -- Florian Weimer <fwei...@bfk.de> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99
