Package com.carrotsearch.hppc

Interface HashOrderMixingStrategy

All Superinterfaces:

java.lang.Cloneable

All Known Implementing Classes:

RandomizedHashOrderMixer

public interface HashOrderMixingStrategy
extends java.lang.Cloneable

Hash order mixing strategy implementations should provide an, ideally, random integer that is later XORed with the hash of a given key before the slot lookup in associative arrays.

Why good hash mixing is important is explained in the differences between hash and scatter sets.

See Also:

ObjectHashSet.hashKey(KType), ObjectObjectHashMap.hashKey(KType), HashOrderMixing

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
HashOrderMixingStrategy	clone()
int	newKeyMixer(int newContainerBufferSize)	A new key mixer value.

Method Detail

newKeyMixer

int newKeyMixer(int newContainerBufferSize)

A new key mixer value. The value can be derived from the new buffer size of the container, but preferably should be random and unique.

Parameters:

newContainerBufferSize -

clone

HashOrderMixingStrategy clone()

Returns:

Return a clone of this strategy. This should use a different mixing because cloned containers should have a different hash ordering.