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HashSet

High Priority13 min readUpdated June 6, 2026

HashSet is the common implementation of the Set interface. It stores unique elements with no guaranteed order and offers constant-time average performance for the three operations that come up most often: add, remove, and contains. This lesson covers what's inside a HashSet, why equals and hashCode matter so much, the issues around mutable elements, and the capacity and load factor numbers.

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