load-factor

I am to write a chained hash set class in java. I understand the load factor is M/capacity where M is the number of elements currently in the table and capacity is the size of the table. But how does the load factor help me determine if I should resize the table and rehash or not? Also I couldn't find anywhere how to calculate the lower / upper load factors. Are they even needed? I hope this is enough information, Thank you!! A single loadFactor used to configure standard Java hashes (and in a number of hash APIs in other languages) is a simplification. Conceptually, it is reasonable to

HashMap has two important properties: size and load factor . I went through the Java documentation and it says 0.75f is the initial load factor. But I can't find the actual use of it. Can someone describe what are the different scenarios where we need to set load factor and what are some sample ideal values for different cases? The documentation explains it pretty well: An instance of HashMap has two parameters that affect its performance: initial capacity and load factor. The capacity is the number of buckets in the hash table, and the initial capacity is simply the capacity at the time the