2. A Hashtable is an array of a list. Each list is known as a Bucket. The position of the Bucket is identified by calling the HashCode() method. 3. Hashtable is synchronized. 4. Hashtable stores ...

Summary: This is the most egregious scenario showing that linearProbing pales in comparison to doubleHashing. The efficency is by a factor of 100 when you look at the loadFactors approaching 1.

Java’s garbage collection features tend to confuse new developers. I wrote this two-part series on garbage collection to dispel that confusion. Part 1 introduced you to garbage collection, explored ...

A colleague of mine recently ran into an issue that I have not run into myself, but found to be interesting and, in my opinion, worth blogging about here. During some distributed Java development, my ...