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1.9 KiB
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* Copyright (c) 2000, 2006, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
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* ORACLE PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms.
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package java.util;
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* Marker interface used by <tt>List</tt> implementations to indicate that
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* they support fast (generally constant time) random access. The primary
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* purpose of this interface is to allow generic algorithms to alter their
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* behavior to provide good performance when applied to either random or
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* sequential access lists.
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* <p>The best algorithms for manipulating random access lists (such as
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* <tt>ArrayList</tt>) can produce quadratic behavior when applied to
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* sequential access lists (such as <tt>LinkedList</tt>). Generic list
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* algorithms are encouraged to check whether the given list is an
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* <tt>instanceof</tt> this interface before applying an algorithm that would
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* provide poor performance if it were applied to a sequential access list,
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* and to alter their behavior if necessary to guarantee acceptable
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* performance.
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* <p>It is recognized that the distinction between random and sequential
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* access is often fuzzy. For example, some <tt>List</tt> implementations
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* provide asymptotically linear access times if they get huge, but constant
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* access times in practice. Such a <tt>List</tt> implementation
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* should generally implement this interface. As a rule of thumb, a
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* <tt>List</tt> implementation should implement this interface if,
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* for typical instances of the class, this loop:
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* <pre>
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* for (int i=0, n=list.size(); i < n; i++)
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* list.get(i);
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* </pre>
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* runs faster than this loop:
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* <pre>
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* for (Iterator i=list.iterator(); i.hasNext(); )
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* i.next();
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* </pre>
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*
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* <p>This interface is a member of the
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* <a href="{@docRoot}/../technotes/guides/collections/index.html">
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* Java Collections Framework</a>.
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* @since 1.4
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*/
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public interface RandomAccess {
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}
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