It's simply the initial size given to a Map implementation so that its internal
array bucket is already sized up. See HashMap constructor args for more info.
Frankly, I think this is an example of option-itis - too many configuration
options.
~ David Smiley
On 6/30/09 4:03 PM, "Phillip Farber
I'm trying to understand the purpose of the initialSize parameter for
the queryResultCache and documentCache. Is it correct that it controls
how much heap is allocated to each cache at startup?
I can see how it makes sense for queryResultCache since it is documented
as an "ordered lists of