Consider Below points before choosing List concrete implementations for your use case:
- ArrayList is a linear data structure and re-sizable/dynamic array
- Initial size can be given. and if not given the default size is 10
- It is always good practice to give initial size and advised not to give very large number as size
- Good programmers prefer ArrayList to LinkedList if retrieval operations is done more frequently than insertion and deletions of elements.
- Better choose LinkedList if insertion and deletion operations are done frequently compared to retrieval operations.
- Lists are not sorted. if required use Collections.sort() to sort
- Collections.sort() uses optimized merge sort [tim sort] on ArrayList
- However legacy merge sort also can be used using a switch. But it is going to be deprecated in near future
- The major difference between ArrayList and LinkedList is RandomAccess behavior
- ArrayLists uses Random access indexing where as LinkedLists uses
- LinkedList carries extra overhead in the form of reference to the next and previous elements other than element's data itself
- LinkedList uses Doubly LinkedList data structure internally
- Deque is the java DoubleLinkedList data structure implementation
- Before choosing List implementation ask yourself below questions
b. Which operations are used more frequently? [insertion, deletion,
retrieval, search, sort are few among others]
- Search Algorithm:
b. Collections class uses linear search if List is of type LinkedList
- ArrayList and LinkedList both uses fast fail iterations.
- If another thread tries to modify list while iterating, java runtime throws ConcurrentModificationException. This can be considered as fast fail behavior
