"

 COPYRIGHT (c) 1993 by Claus Gittinger

	      All Rights Reserved

 This software is furnished under a license and may be used

 only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the

 inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not

 be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any

 other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is

 hereby transferred.

"

"{ Package: 'stx:libbasic2' }"

Dictionary subclass:#CacheDictionary

	instanceVariableNames:''

	classVariableNames:''

	poolDictionaries:''

	category:'Collections-Unordered'

!

!CacheDictionary class methodsFor:'documentation'!

copyright

"

 COPYRIGHT (c) 1993 by Claus Gittinger

	      All Rights Reserved

 This software is furnished under a license and may be used

 only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the

 inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not

 be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any

 other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is

 hereby transferred.

"

!

documentation

"

    a CacheDictionary is a Dictionary which will not grow - i.e. keep

    only a limited number of elements.

    It can be used as a cache, for keeping recently used objects alive.

    [author:]

        Claus Gittinger

"

!

examples

"

                                                                        [exBegin]

    |d|

    d := CacheDictionary new:16.

    1 to:20 do:[:i |

        d at:i printString put:i.

    ].

    21 to:40 do:[:i |

        d at:i printString put:i.

    ].

    d inspect

                                                                        [exEnd]

"

! !

!CacheDictionary methodsFor:'private'!

emptyCheck

    "redefined - never shrink"

    ^ self

    "Modified: 30.1.1997 / 15:17:12 / cg"

!

findKeyOrNil:key  

    "Look for the key in the receiver.  If it is found, return

     the index of the association containing the key, otherwise

     return the index of the first unused slot. If no empty slot

     is available, make one empty (but never grow)."

    |index  "{ Class:SmallInteger }"

     length "{ Class:SmallInteger }"

     probe|

    length := keyArray basicSize.

    [true] whileTrue:[

        probe := keyArray basicAt:index.

        probe isNil ifTrue:[

        ].

        ].

        index := index + 1.

        index > length ifTrue:[

            index := 1.

        ].

        index == startIndex ifTrue:[

            "/ mhmh - actually, a kind of round-robin would be better

            ].

            tally := tally - 1.

        ].

    ]

    "Modified: 1.3.1997 / 00:59:55 / cg"

!

fullCheck

    "redefined - never grow"

    ^ self

    "Modified: 30.1.1997 / 15:17:18 / cg"

! !

!CacheDictionary class methodsFor:'documentation'!

version

! !