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From: John Vines <jvines@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 00:20:27 -0400
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Subject: Re: StatsIterator - what is the significance of 23?
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For a similar fun read, check out reasoning for the implementation of
String's hashCode()


On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Mike Drob <mdrob@mdrob.com> wrote:

> At a guess, it looks like a small prime intended to decrease the amount of
> atomic operations.
>
> Completely unrelated, but this made me think of Feynman and the mysterious
> number 137.
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 9:29 PM, David Medinets <david.medinets@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > At the risk of having overlooked something obvious, I was curious about
> the
> > occurrence of 23 in the StatsIterator code:
> >
> >   public void next() throws IOException {
> >     super.next();
> >     numRead++;
> >
> >     if (numRead % 23 == 0) {
> >       readCounter.addAndGet(numRead);
> >       numRead = 0;
> >     }
> >   }
> >
> > I'm also wondering about the StatsIterator in general. The member
> variables
> > are all private. They are incremented but never used.
> >
>


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Cheers
~John

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