Re: Distinct ID Number Per Object?
Eric Sosman wrote:
Lew wrote:
Hal Vaughan wrote:
So is it only in extreme cases like this where hashcodes would be
duplicated?
Hash codes have even fewer values than Strings. That means there must
be proportionately more collisions. Have you read the Javadocs on the
hashCode() method? You should. Also read the Javadocs on Map,
HashMap and IdentityHashMap.
As Twisted pointed out, the "Identity", i.e., the internal "address"
of an object, is unique for the lifetime of that object. [...]
Can you find this guarantee in the Javadoc or other
authoritative place? Does this rule out 64-bit JVM's?
You mean the guarantee that an object's "address" is unique during its
lifetime? How else would the JVM find a particular instance? In other words,
how could it possibly not be?
If two objects had the same "address", then a reference using that "address"
would not reference a single object, which contradicts the very definition of
an object reference.
<http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/execution.html#12.5>
a reference to the newly created object is returned as the result [of] the indicated constructor
There is no way for one "address" to point to two objects simultaneously.
This question has nothing to do with bit width, AFAICS. I'm not really sure
how there could even be a question here.
--
Lew
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