Thanks a lot Harsh. I got the point . But I have one small question. Why is 2 or 3 reduced from exponent based on whether its a 32bit or 64 bit JVM respectively while calculating LightWeightGSet capacity. Any Idea ?
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Harsh J <ha...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Akash, > > You should be able to come to a conclusion here: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1114 > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Akash Ashok <thehellma...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > I was just going thru the implementation of LightWeightGSet and i > figured > > LightWeightGSet implementation is pretty much the same as that of a > HashMap > > execept for the fact that HashMap resizes itself if the number of element > > exceeds the load factor and HashMap has a much stronger hash. Could some1 > > tell me as to why LightWeightGSet was written when HashMap itself could > have > > been used ?? > > > > Cheers, > > Akash A > > > > > > -- > Harsh J >
