Galo Navarro

I am a software engineer focusing on scalability, distributed systems, performance. Most of my work revolved around infrastructure, backend services, data plumbing, virtual networks.

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How Does the Default hashCode() Work?

Java

By Galo Navarro, February 10, 2017

Java's Object class has a hashCode() implementation. But what does it do? Where do the values, often mistakenly assumed to be memory addresses, come from?