On Sun, 7 Aug 2022 08:14:58 GMT, Alan Bateman <al...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> > Sorry for joining late. I noticed that modsHashCode is a private method and 
> > it takes Iterable as a parameter. But everywhere it is called, a Set is 
> > passed to it. So why not just calling the set.hashCode() and be done with 
> > it? It may be even more optimal in some cases.
> 
> There's a lot going on here as the hash code is generated at link time and we 
> also want it to be reproducible across builds. We also had a CDS bug with the 
> the way that Enum objects were archived - Ioi has fixed that in JDK 19 so we 
> have one less thing to be concerned about now.

Ah, I see. Enum.hashCode() is identity hash code. I have been beaten by that in 
the past and apparently this is a sore point for many. I wonder if it could be 
changed. Is unstable hashCode (accross JVM instances) a feature here or just 
unfortunate implementation detail?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9790

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