Re: what the benefit is by using annotation, like "@Immutable" ?
"Lew" <noone@lewscanon.com> wrote in message
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Tom Anderson wrote:
The beauty of the String approach, of using a special value of code to
indicate that it had not been calculated, is that you don't need any
synchronisation for safety, just the JLS's guarantee of no word tearing
in writes and reads of int variables. Because it combines the flag and
value fields in a single int, they are read and written atomically as a
pair. Of course, were you to do this, you might want to avoid String's
ability to generate a code which looks like a flag indicating the lack
of a code (ie 0). But then, you might think the one in four billion
chance of it happening was insignificant.
Joshua Cranmer wrote:
Or you could store the value in the low word of a long and the flag in
the upper word.
But then you'd need to synchronize, unlike in 'String#hashCode()'.
Or you could define the hashCode() value for a String whose calculated value
is 0 as 1.
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