At a guess, it looks like a small prime intended to decrease the amount of atomic operations.
Completely unrelated, but this made me think of Feynman and the mysterious number 137. On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 9:29 PM, David Medinets <[email protected]>wrote: > At the risk of having overlooked something obvious, I was curious about the > occurrence of 23 in the StatsIterator code: > > public void next() throws IOException { > super.next(); > numRead++; > > if (numRead % 23 == 0) { > readCounter.addAndGet(numRead); > numRead = 0; > } > } > > I'm also wondering about the StatsIterator in general. The member variables > are all private. They are incremented but never used. >
