> Pivot maps and JDK maps are not equal. The fundamental operations are the > same, but Pivot maps fire events, perform auto-sorting, and iterate > differently. These features cannot be as efficiently implemented using JDK > collections as they can natively. >
I don't buy it. Map fires events in put() and delete(), which is a small amount of extra code and I don't see how inlining will make that faster. Sorting just means using TreeMap instead of HashMap. And the iterations are basically the same, expect that Pivot has a Sequence API, which is a thin wrapper over Collection. But hey, I'm not the one that's going to write this code, so have fun :-) Regards, Noel.
