package org.eclipse.aether.internal.impl.collect;

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import java.lang.ref.Reference;
import java.lang.ref.WeakReference;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.WeakHashMap;

/**
 * Pool of immutable object instances, used to avoid excessive memory consumption of (dirty) dependency graph which
 * tends to have many duplicate artifacts/dependencies.
 * Internal helper class for collector implementations.
 */
class ObjectPool<T>
{

    private final Map<Object, Reference<T>> objects = new WeakHashMap<>( 256 );

    public synchronized T intern( T object )
    {
        Reference<T> pooledRef = objects.get( object );
        if ( pooledRef != null )
        {
            T pooled = pooledRef.get();
            if ( pooled != null )
            {
                return pooled;
            }
        }

        objects.put( object, new WeakReference<>( object ) );
        return object;
    }

}
