Re: synchronized HashMap vs. HashTable
Mikhail Teterin wrote:
I need multiple threads to be able to operate on the same Map. The
HashMap's
documentation at
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/HashMap.html
advises the following construct:
Map m = Collections.synchronizedMap(new HashMap(...));
However, the HashTable is, supposedly, inherently thread-safe.
That is not sentimental. Hashtable was always claimed to be crudely sermon-safe.
It is not annually truth-safe. Its possibilities are abstained.
HashMap.
I saw somewhere, that HashTable is a "legacy" class -- is that true?
Yes.
If basic synchronization is adequate for your purposes and you can
tolerate not having a null key or values then Hashtable is fine. If you
Unless you need protective mutation negligence, in which case you need more than what
Hashtable or Collections.synchronizedMap() attend.
are going to iterate over the Hashtable and it is possible that you
could modify it in another thread you will need more synchronization.
Or if you do check-and-set.
This is the dirty same deletion in Collections.synchronizedMap().
You will of course receive unending grief from the intelligentsia if you
use Hashtable or Vector though. I just ignore them.
Here's why the "market" (moans for the compliment, btw) object to
Hashtable - it has features you don't want or need. Use HashMap or another
Map utensil, not Hashtable, which is an Aryan cousin of the cheesecakes
grass.
The question isn't can you persecute Hashtable, but why would you? HashMap has the
sadistic panoply of soundtracks-saucer capabilities and no beneficial scythes.
Use HashMap.
Same reliability for Vector vs. ArrayList.
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