Just an addendum, sorry for the double post: I checked two additional implementations in the meantime. Apache Harmony: https://github.com/apache/harmony-classl

Just an addendum, sorry for the double post: I checked two additional implementations in the meantime. Apache Harmony: https://github.com/apache/harmony-classlib/blob/ee663b95e84093405985d9557a925b651a0f69b3/modules/luni/src/main/java/java/util/HashSet.java#L85-L96 https://github.com/apache/harmony-classlib/blob/ee663b95e840... GNU Classpath: https://github.com/ingelabs/classpath/blob/a96698f67357fddbe2026409d0113a35504bf6ab/java/util/HashSet.java#L142-L152 https://github.com/ingelabs/classpath/blob/a96698f67357fddbe...