[infinispan-dev] Concurrent hashmaps parameters

[Bela Ban]

David M. Lloyd wrote:
> NonBlockingHashMap is great *except* that it relies on sun.misc.Unsafe,
> which makes portability a bit iffy. I *think* that it could be ported to
> use Atomic* instead, but it looked like quite a bit of work to do so (not
> to mention testing).
>
> The problem with CHM is that they are *big*, so you don't want to have a
> lot of them - *especially* if you're using a high concurrency level,
> because they get even bigger in that case.

Understood that CHMs are big, but back to my question: how doesn 
Infinispan intend to address hashmaps with 1000 different keys ? Or are 
you guys already parameterizing creation of CHMs ?

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Bela Ban
Lead JGroups / Clustering Team
JBoss