On May 30, 2010, at 11:10 AM, Sean Owen wrote: > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Benson Margulies > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I wasn't here when you all picked up Colt, but I wonder if we want to >> pick a middle ground between carrying around @deprecated code that no >> one feels like testing and deleting it altogether. Work went into IP >> clearance and all that. I'd identifying the things that look furthest >> from useful and moving them to a separate 'attic', from which they >> could be recovered in case someone found a use for them. > > (It is always resurrectable from SVN too.)
A bit harder to find, though. > >> By the way, howcome 'taste' has a BitSet distinct from either the JDK >> class or the collection BitVector? > > Purely for speed and size -- mostly skipping range checks, cutting out > fields, etc. It mattered enough since it got used so much. Those are the reasons Lucene has one too!
