/* 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. Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole combination. As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend this exception to your version of the library, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version. */ 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