On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Matt Corgan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Working on PrefixTree testing I noticed that KeyValue.KVComparator includes
> the memstoreTS when comparing, however the KeyValue.equals() method ignores
> the memstoreTS.

Sounds like bug/oversight Matt.  I'd think msts should be factored into equals.

> On the other hand, KVComparator isn't technically the default comparator so
> I wouldn't say it's a bug.
>
> Java 7 sidenote - We ran into this problem internally at HotPads when
> moving to Java 7.  The
> Comparator<http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Comparator.html>
> interface
> has always specified that comparator return 0 when equals would return true
> and vice versa.  Obeying that rule has been sort of optional in the past,
> but Java 7 introduces a new default collection sorting algorithm called Tim
> Sort <http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6804124> which relies on that
> behavior.  We've been using a VM argument to roll back to the old sorting
> algorithm.
>

Thanks for pointer.  Need to fix now trunk builds on jenkins w/ jdk7.

St.Ack

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