引自博客:https://www.cnblogs.com/linghu-java/p/10598758.html
Because TreeNodes are about twice the size of regular nodes, we use them only when bins contain enough nodes to warrant use (see TREEIFY_THRESHOLD). And when they become too small (due to removal or resizing) they are converted back to plain bins. In usages with well-distributed user hashCodes, tree bins are rarely used. Ideally, under random hashCodes, the frequency of nodes in bins follows a Poisson distribution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution) with a parameter of about 0.5 on average for the default resizing threshold of 0.75, although with a large variance because of resizing granularity. Ignoring variance, the expected occurrences of list size k are (exp(-0.5)*pow(0.5, k)/factorial(k)). The first values are: 0: 0.60653066 1: 0.30326533 2: 0.07581633 3: 0.01263606 4: 0.00157952 5: 0.00015795 6: 0.00001316 7: 0.00000094 8: 0.00000006 more: less than 1 in ten million
当hashCode离散性很好的时候,树型bin用到的概率非常小,因为数据均匀分布在每个bin中,几乎不会有bin中链表长度会达到阈值。但是在随机hashCode下,离散性可能会变差,然而JDK又不能阻止用户实现这种不好的hash算法,因此就可能导致不均匀的数据分布。不过理想情况下随机hashCode算法下所有bin中节点的分布频率会遵循泊松分布,我们可以看到,一个bin中链表长度达到8个元素的概率为0.00000006,几乎是不可能事件。所以,之所以选择8,不是拍拍屁股决定的,而是根据概率统计决定的。由此可见,发展30年的Java每一项改动和优化都是非常严谨和科学的。
个人理解是
当loadfactor是默认是0.5,阈值是0.75
0.5时候用泊松分布计算:
代入λ = 0.5,增大K,则计算出上面的值
所以当K等于8的时候分布率已经是极低的了,因此需要把链转红黑树(java8性质)