Hi Mike,
I have a query, why is this implementation limitted to String?
Is this by intent?
in HashMap the patch for hash calculation is
290 final int hash(Object k) {
291 int h = hashMask;
292 if ((0 != h) && (k instanceof String)) {
293 return h ^ ((String)k).hash32();
....
whereas I would have thought that it should be
290 final int hash(Object k) {
291 int h = hashMask;
292 if ((0 != h) && (k instanceof Hash32)) {
293 return h ^ ((Hash32)k).hash32();
....
As a more flexible improvement could you supply a HashCode and Equals delegate,
and then the user can supply either a custom delegate, suitable for that
application (e.g.one that iterates through array content, or any other
application data structure that needs to be handled differently like c# uses
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.collections.iequalitycomparer )
Regards
Mike
