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 ...

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've not really used maps/hashes inside of any previous c/c++ code, but now I have need to within a project here at the office.<BR><BR>I've got to tie an ACL to control id's in an MFC application, and ...