I realize I may be jumping in late to this discussion, but Bruce just introduced me to this fine contributors group. At a talk during the Google I/O conference, I mentioned the benefit of using the GWT FastStringMap implementation over the HashMap implementation and I decided to re-run my analysis for 1.5 to see if the 1.5 compiler was smart enough to pick a faster implementation and unfortunately that does not appear to be the case. I hope I'm not hijacking Emily's thread, but I just thought some of you would find my (basic) data interesting for HashMap vs. FastStringMap.
I posted my results up on my company development blog if you don't mind me not copy-and-pasting it all here: http://development.lombardi.com/?p=95 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
