Please ignore the lack of custom serialization, I'll certainly tidy up the code if there is interest in it.
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Kevin L. Stern <[email protected]>wrote: > I put together the following class, ChunkedArrayList, in response to > Martin's request (excerpted from an earlier conversation on this web board) > below. > > > https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B6brz3MPBDdhMGNiNGIwMTQtMTgxMi00ODlmLTk4ZGYtOWY2NDE0M2E5M2Zl&sort=name&layout=list&num=50 > > Thoughts? > > Regards, > > Kevin > > > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Martin Buchholz <[email protected]> > wrote: > > It surely is not a good idea to use a single backing array > for huge arrays. As you point out, it's up to 32GB > for just one object. But the core JDK > doesn't offer a suitable alternative for users who need very > large collections. > > It would have been more in the spirit of Java to have a > collection class instead of ArrayList that was not fastest at > any particular operation, but had excellent asymptotic behaviour, > based on backing arrays containing backing arrays. > But: > - no such excellent class has been written yet > (or please point me to such a class) > - even if it were, such a best-of-breed-general-purpose > List implementation would probably need to be introduced as a > separate class, because of the performance expectations of > existing implementations. > > In the meantime, we have to maintain what we got, > and that includes living with arrays and classes that wrap them. > > Changing the spec is unlikely to succeed.. > > Martin >
