After the previous post, I just had to look. The implementation of Object.equals is, as was previously noted, just “return this == obj”, but the implementation of Object.hashCode is far more ...

I had an interesting realization tonight: I'm terrified of hash tables. Specifically, my work on JRuby (and even more directly, my work optimizing JRuby) has made me terrified to ever consider using a ...

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