[infinispan-dev] Hash calculation in DefaultConsistentHash
Jason T. Greene
jason.greene at redhat.com
Tue Oct 13 13:41:34 EDT 2009
Manik Surtani wrote:
> On 13 Oct 2009, at 15:30, Jason T. Greene wrote:
>
>> We've always had that requirement. Hes referring to classes which do
>> not
>> define a hashCode, and thus inherit Object.hashCode(), which
>> produces a
>> number based on the reference pointer which is different per-vm.
>
> Sure, but for folks that don't expect to be able to retrieve a key
> from anywhere, it should still work. But that is a weird use case
> anyway, unless the cache is in local mode in which case DIST doesn't
> apply.
>
Right, you can do it in local mode. His hashcode routine would of course
still work for that, that is if you wanted to have datacontainer alwyas
use it (probably a good idea).
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Jason T. Greene
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