On Jun 11 2013, at 09:59 , Remi Forax wrote: > Hi guys, > This mail was originality sent to lambda-lib EG but Brian ask me to also send > it here to not forget. > > We should provide an implementation of forEach for HashMap that avoid to > create an Iterator, > HashMap is too common to not have it's dedicated implementation
I assume you mean the forEach on the entrySet. > (ArrayList by example has its own implementation of forEach). > > There is also another implementation that should have a specific > implementation IdentityHashMap because > entrySet() creates map entries on the fly so having a specific implementation > that will not allocatin entries will improve performance > (a lot for big identity hashmap). Are you suggesting adding a IdentityMap.forEach(BiConsumer) or re-using the Map.Entry passed to the consumer in entrySet().forEach(Consumer)? Mike > cheers, > Rémi
