I agree with using ArrayList, ideally. It's really up to your judgment whether it's worth the effort -- your effort -- IMHO.
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: > Colt include a rather oddly-implemented ObjectArrayList. One > side-effect of disconnecting the primitive type collections from their > Capitalized object cousins is the leave this class somewhat out in the > cold. > > I would delete it, except for two things. (1) There are some > speed-related APIs in here that make it potentially faster than > ArrayList<T> for some purposes. (2) The hash map code uses it. > > For now, I've does the necessary furniture moving to preserve it, > sharing a common AbstractList class with the primitive types. > > When I finish the array list classes, and move on to the hash maps, I > may conclude that it would work just as well with a plain old > ArrayList<T>, and kill the ObjectArrayList. No other code uses the > ObjectArrayList in any sensible way. (There are some pointless uses of > it for sorting that I've replaced with direct use of the Sorting > class.) >
