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From: Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net>
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Subject: Re: StringBuilder Difficulties
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:06:39 -0700
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On 5 Jul 2011 19:12:39 GMT, blmblm@myrealbox.com
<blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> wrote:

[snip]

>What I found is that HashSet was noticeably faster on all the
>systems where I ran the benchmarks.  Unless you need for the set
>to be sorted (and it's not apparent from your code that you do),
>why not .... ?  (I'm curious too about why you chose TreeSet in
>the first place.  ? )

  1) I can output the set in order without having to do anything else.
My real program has a lot of debugging info dumping.  (Read as "checks
that I have not done something wrong".)

  2) When I read "hash", I think "collision", and I get nervous.
Nothing I read reassured me that that could not happen.

  3) I had to pick something.  If it works, I can change it later.  If
it does not, I have not solved my problem yet.  The former is safer.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko