Martin Buchholz wrote:
Here's a bunch of static hashCode methods for primitives:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~martin/webrevs/openjdk7/hashCode/
Hmm, I'd be more inclined to group these methods into Objects as part of
a "universal hash" functionality.
This doesn't include a
public static int hashCode(object x) { return x == null ? 0 : x.hashCode(); }
that I think was also being asked for, and which might be a candidate
for Objects.
Yes, I was thinking of that method for Objects.
-Joe
PS This talk of hashing remind me of a small spec cleanup:
4245470 algorithm of java.lang.Byte.hashCode() is not specified
http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=4245470
