Re: A List implementation backed by multiple small arrays rather than the traditional single large array.

Hi Kevin, Martin, To add another discussion point, I've been writing a draft/proof-of-concept of retrofitting the List interface onto ArrayDeque. This works over the raw array, it doesn't use the fancier structures being discussed elsewhere on this list that deal with splitting huge arrays into ar

Re: Sponsoring getting 5015163 "(str) String merge/join that is the inverse of String.split()" into JDK 7

Hi, >From the peanut gallery, it seems to me that there is a genuine reason to leave join as a static method (if we're not going after the google-collections approach of a Joiner class

Re: Faster HashMap implementation

Alex, Might I suggest you look at the test framework in Google Collections? Extremely good coverage and only a couple of lines to set up. Tests for maps in java.util: http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en#YXcrkXezIpQ/trunk/testfw/com/google/common/co