Question about the PlayerData class in monkeyzone

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I’m learning to use spidermonkey, and I’ve been looking at the code for monkey zone as a reference. I noticed that to store the player data you use a HashMap object (eg HashMap and then use synchronized class methods to make changes to the HashMap.

Wouldn’t it be just as effective (or atleast easier to read/deal with) to use a ConcurrentHashMap object instead, and not have synchronized class methods?

Is there a reason monkey zone uses HashMaps over ConcurrentHashMaps?

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Theres no reason for that, no.

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The only reason would be if other changes (outside the hashmap) were also being made or might potentially be made in the future…

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thats actually a pretty good point. I might follow the same kind of pattern. Thanks.