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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Re: setSize ArrayList, when will it come?
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Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 09.08.2011 04:16, Jan Burse wrote:
>> The software refactoring use case, is replacing a synchronized
>> Vector by an unsychronized ArrayList in regions where no synchronization
>> is necessary.
> This can be done in many cases, especially in all cases where Vector 
> instances are used through the List interface.

Originally, Vector wasn't a List.  So, really old code isn't
very "likely" to use the List interface of Vector.

>> Which is eventually abuse of the term "sparse",
> If you really need a sparse type ...
didn't seem so.