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		yxhuvud 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Strings Just Got Faster Nothing stops the jvm from caching hashes even if the hashes are unique per process invocation.

PaulHoule 10 months ago [–]

They aren’t and it’s quite unfortunate that the empty string hashes to 0 so it will have to recompute every time although presumably it is quick to compute the hash of the empty string.

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