| The comparator uses == and System.identifyHashCode to compare two objects.
It assumes if o1 != o2, then c1 != c2 where c1 = System.identityHashCode(o1).
This is useful if dynamic proxy is used with TreeSet or TreeMap
(so equals is expensive).
Reason: the speed of identifyHashCode is much faster than dynamic proxy
(150:1).
However, if possible, java.util.IdentityHashMap and
IdentityHashSet are preferred.
author: tomyeh See Also: IdentityHashSet |