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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand>
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Subject: Re: Did the sort do anything?
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In message <N6-dnSCv9viQDE3QnZ2dnUVZ_v6dnZ2d@earthlink.com>, Patricia 
Shanahan wrote:

> On 5/15/2011 7:32 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> If, on the other hand, you were sorting immutable objects of a Java
>> “reference” type where the key was the entire object state, then
>> stability would indeed be irrelevant, notwithstanding such types are not
>> considered “primitive”.
> 
> Do you consider the result of System.identityHashCode(x) to be part of
> the state of the object referenced by x?

It is computed from the state, is it not?