For a similar fun read, check out reasoning for the implementation of String's hashCode()
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Mike Drob <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > -- Cheers ~John
