--- Stephen Colebourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> From: "Torsten Curdt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Regarding the FastHashMap: since the
> use is more or less discouraged ...why
> not deprecate it?
> 
> Because it works on everything that its been tried on. 

It's more like no one has ever noticed it breaking.  I'm not certain
whether we know it actually works.

> No-ones ever
> reported 
> a bug, its just that with all the double-checked locking theoretical
> ideas 
> we have to be cautious.
> 
> I believe that other parts of commons, including some used by struts,
> use 
> FastHashMap for example.

Unfortunately, Commons Validator still uses FastHashMap in some protected
instance variables where changing them to Map references might break
subclasses.  We have deprecated their usage and will be removing them in
future releases.

David


> 
> Stephen 
> 


                
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