[Mono-list] Generic-enabled ArrayList

John Luke jluke@users.sourceforge.net
Sun, 06 Jun 2004 18:30:21 -0400


On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 18:14 -0400, Jonathan Gilbert wrote:
> At 05:44 PM 06/06/2004 -0400, John Luke wrote:
> >On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 23:31 +0200, Simon Ask Ulsnes wrote:
> >> Hi there!
> >> Is there such a thing as a Generic-enabled ArrayList in Mono? I've been 
> >> looking through the docs, I couldn't seem to find anything.
> >> 
> >> I did a little test case to see the performance difference between 
> >> generics and boxing myself, and the difference was enormous! Especially 
> >> with primitive classes like Int32 etc. (String wasn't quite as fast).
> >
> >List<T> in Systems.Collections.Generics?
> 
> Is this an *array* list like ArrayList or a linked list? The name is unclear.
> 

My understanding is that it is very similar to the ArrayList, but they
also will have a LinkedList (from the video on MSDNTV). Also, they may
change things more before they release it.