/* LinkedHashSet.java -- a set backed by a LinkedHashMap, for linked list traversal. Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU Classpath. GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA. As a special exception, if you link this library with other files to produce an executable, this library does not by itself cause the resulting executable to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the executable file might be covered by the GNU General Public License. */ package java.util; import java.io.Serializable; /** * This class provides a hashtable-backed implementation of the * Set interface, with predictable traversal order. *
*
* It uses a hash-bucket approach; that is, hash collisions are handled
* by linking the new node off of the pre-existing node (or list of
* nodes). In this manner, techniques such as linear probing (which
* can cause primary clustering) and rehashing (which does not fit very
* well with Java's method of precomputing hash codes) are avoided. In
* addition, this maintains a doubly-linked list which tracks insertion
* order. Note that the insertion order is not modified if an
* add
simply reinserts an element in the set.
*
*
* One of the nice features of tracking insertion order is that you can
* copy a set, and regardless of the implementation of the original,
* produce the same results when iterating over the copy. This is possible
* without needing the overhead of TreeSet
.
*
* * Under ideal circumstances (no collisions), LinkedHashSet offers O(1) * performance on most operations. In the worst case (all elements map * to the same hash code -- very unlikely), most operations are O(n). *
*
* LinkedHashSet accepts the null entry. It is not synchronized, so if
* you need multi-threaded access, consider using:
* Set s = Collections.synchronizedSet(new LinkedHashSet(...));
*
*
* The iterators are fail-fast, meaning that any structural
* modification, except for remove()
called on the iterator
* itself, cause the iterator to throw a
* {@link ConcurrentModificationException} rather than exhibit
* non-deterministic behavior.
*
* @author Eric Blake