As per my understanding, and what I have read
The load factor is a measure of how full the hash table is allowed to get before its capacity is automatically increased
So, when loadfactor is .8(80%), with map size of 10, Map
will grow by size 10, when 8 elements are put in Map
.
So, now Map
has size 20. My doubt is when next 10 element space will be added to Map
.
Map
is again 80% full, that is when 16 elements are put in Map
.or
Map
.That will be at 16. If you look at the java code for HashMap
:
threshold = (int)(newCapacity * loadFactor);
where new capacity is the new size. Therefore the limit in your example will be 16.