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Accessing the Map values using keySet iterator

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A common mistake is to retrieve values from a Map while iterating over the Map keys with keySet(). Calling Map.get(key) for each entry is expensive and should be avoided for better performance.

Use entrySet() iterator to avoid the Map.get(key) lookup.

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Written by Alex

November 22, 2007 at 12:02 pm

Posted in Collections

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