A final approach to cloning complex mutable objects is to call super.clone, set all of the fields in the resulting object to their initial state, and then call higher-level methods to regenerate the state of the original object. In the case of our HashTable example, the buckets field would be initialized to a new bucket array, and the put(key, value) method (not shown) would be invoked for each key-value mapping in the hash table being cloned. This approach typically yields a simple, reasonably elegant clone method that does not run as quickly as one that directly manipulates the innards of
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