Given the algorithm used, I don't really understand what bloat you are referring to. Compared to assembly? I guess maybe. But this is a managed language with ne

Given the algorithm used, I don't really understand what bloat you are referring to. Compared to assembly? I guess maybe. But this is a managed language with near-cpp performance. Small price to pay. Also, there's utility for hashcode/equals far beyond the collections framework... having an identity in a toString() for instance is of great value.