Re: ConcurrentArrayList

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Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li>
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On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Philipp wrote:

On Jul 24, 2:49?pm, "John B. Matthews" <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:

In article
<c52abccd-e618-4cc9-b48e-de95c07e9...@o15g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,

?Philipp <djb...@gmail.com> wrote:

I can't find an implementation of a "ConcurrentArrayList", that is an
ArrayList which has the same concurrency ?properties as
ConcurrentHashMap has for HashMap:
- concurrent reads and writes with little contention
- safe interation while modification takess place (no
ConcurrentModificationException)

Is there such a thing?


Depending on your needs, you might look at these:


Yes thanks, I saw these

<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Collections.html
#synchronizedList(java.util.List)>


synchronizedList doesn't allow concurrent reads and writes. All access
is locked by a single mutex lock.

<http://www.j2ee.me/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/
CopyOnWriteArrayList.html>


CopyOnWriteArrayList has very bad performance characteristics on
writes as the whole content gets copied on each insert.

My first request (concurrent) could be solved as simply as locking with
a ReadWriteLock instead of a mutex (although smarter solutions exist).
Regarding fail-safe Iterators, I'm a bit lost...


I don't think the arrayness of an ArrayList really admits an efficient
concurrent implementation. How would you handle inserts into the middle of
the list?

tom

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