I think it's legacy (HTable has been around for a while), although it doesn't do any harm right? Feel free to open a jira (and even submit a patch :P ).
J-D On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Karthik K <oss....@gmail.com> wrote: > HTable is not thread-safe , as seen from the handling of internal data > structures, and is ok. > > But put / delete seems to have sync. blocks though. any rationale about the > same ? would it be worth removing the 'sync' from on the methods ? >