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about hashcode()

 
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friends,

while an object of any class println() diplaying a value something like this

classname@somehexadecimalstringof-hashcode

but, while observing the Object class i can't find any implementation of hashcode();

but found a 'native' method of hashcode();

then where the hashcode of particular object comes from???
 
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Object's hashCode() is indeed "native", which means here that it's implemented in the JVM itself (in C or assembly language, for example). But other classes can override this method in Java -- for example, java.lang.String does so. That version computes the hash code from the characters of the String.
 
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