A
List implementation that is optimised for fast insertions and removals at any index in the list.
This list implementation utilises a tree structure internally to ensure that all insertions and removals are O(log n). This provides much faster performance than both an ArrayList and a LinkedList where elements are inserted and removed repeatedly from anywhere in the list.
The following relative performance statistics are indicative of this class:
get add insert iterate remove TreeList 3 5 1 2 1 ArrayList 1 1 40 1 40 LinkedList 5800 1 350 2 325
ArrayList is a good general purpose list implementation. It is faster than
TreeList for most operations except inserting and removing in the middle of the list.
ArrayList also uses less memory as
TreeList uses one object per entry.
LinkedList is rarely a good choice of implementation. TreeList is almost always a good replacement for it, although it does use sligtly more memory.
@since Commons Collections 3.1
@version $Revision: 1.3 $ $Date: 2004/05/26 21:56:05 $
@author Joerg Schmuecker
@author Stephen Colebourne