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From	"Lew" <lew@1:261/38.remove-m2z-this>
Subject	Re: hashCode
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From: Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>

Arne Vajh-,j wrote:
> The original questions were:
>
> #Is it always technically correct to override the hashCode function #like so:
> #
> #    @Override
> #    public int hashCode() {
> #        return 1;
> #    }
>
> For which the answer is YES. Per documentation.
>
> But with really poor performance in many relevant cases.
>
> #Would it be potentially better if that was Object's implementation?
>
> Which was clarified to:
>
> #Better in the sense that you would never HAVE to override hashCode.
>
> For which the answer is also YES. Per the previous.

No, that's not true. Value-equality maps, for example, would not work if you 
didn't override 'hashCode()' in the key type to match value equality on the 
keys.

> But with the same performance note. And a big sigh because it
> seems to want to broaden bad performance from a single class
> to the entire programming style (multiple classes).

Overriding 'hashCode()' is done for functional reasons, not performance 
reasons. If you fail to override the method, you'll get incorrect behavior, for 
example failing to find a collection member that is actually present.

--
Lew
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