Paulo Gaspar wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Berin Loritsch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 3:11 PM
>>
>>
>>LinkedList?  That is the slowest list we have!
>>
>
>That really depends on what you are doing.
>
>It is not much slower to iterate trough it than any 
>other list and it can obviously be faster to update
>it than to update an ArrayList.
>
>"Thinking in Java" (http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIJ/)
>had some interesting tables with the result of 
>several comparative performance tests in the 1st
>edition (I still did not look at the 2nd edition).
>
>
>Have fun,
>Paulo Gaspar
>
There are cases where LinkedList has good performances (mainly 
insert/remove in the middle of the list), but it's the slowest for stacks.

See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=101136593301059&w=2 
for a recent discussion on this subject.

Sylvain

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Sylvain Wallez
Anyware Technologies - http://www.anyware-tech.com




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