Re: performance of HashSet with strings and integers
Patricia Shanahan wrote:
The equals method only gets called if the HashSet contains an element
whose hash code is equal to the probe's hash code but that is not the
same object as the probe. That is very unlikely in a test with so few
objects.
Pascal Lecointe erroneously claimed:
Not really. If I remember correctly, the equals is always called
You don't remember correctly.
(because same hash not imply same object).
No, but different hash codes do imply different objects. Note that
Patricia pointed out that 'equals()' is only called if the hash codes
are the same. It is not called if the hash codes differ, because in
that case 'equals()' would always return 'false', so there's no point.
But in this case, the equals first test
that the
references are the same. As the Strings of the example are all in the
constant pool,
the references are the same, and so the equals test is fast.
Really, really fast in the OP's example, because 'equals()' is not
called.
It has nothing to do with the Strings being in the constant pool.
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