Every Hot Rod response from a clustered cache executes the hashCode for the DefaultConsistentHash to identify changes in the topology and notify the client [1].

Since the consistent hash is immutable until a topology change, we can calculate the hashCode only once.

[1] https://github.com/infinispan/infinispan/blob/d381c04aca064aa3940b61b8d0614cc437ebcf9e/server/hotrod/src/main/java/org/infinispan/server/hotrod/Encoder2x.java#L693