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Re: string case clauses

Date	2011-09-12 18:58 -0400
From	Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: string case clauses
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On 9/11/2011 11:54 PM, Lew wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> Roedy Green wrote:
>>> Joshua Cranmer wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>>>> 1. Switch on the hashcode.
>>>> 2. Verify string equalities using a linear switch for all strings that
>>>> have the same hashcode.
>>>
>>> ouch.  That amounts to a linear search comparing hashcodes.  So it is
>>> not a good idea to replace HashMap lookups with String switches.
>>
>> Is anything different from int in pre-1.7?
>
> Not really.

And I do not recall anyone complaining about switch on int, so
yet another non-problem.

Arne

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string case clauses Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-09-11 09:35 -0700
  Re: string case clauses Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-09-11 12:00 -0500
    Re: string case clauses Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-09-11 15:33 -0700
      Re: string case clauses Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-09-11 21:56 -0400
        Re: string case clauses Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-09-11 20:54 -0700
          Re: string case clauses Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-09-12 18:58 -0400
      Re: string case clauses Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2011-09-11 20:05 -0700
        Re: string case clauses Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-09-14 12:13 -0700
          Re: string case clauses Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-09-14 12:36 -0700
          Re: string case clauses Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2011-09-14 18:01 -0700
            Re: string case clauses Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-09-14 20:05 -0700

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