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What is better on iPhone: ArrayList or List<T>?
hey there!
I wonder what is better to use on iPhone: ArrayList or List?
Thnx!
Listen to Statement. But List is better everywhere; it's not specific to a platform.
Yeah it feels ArrayList is obsolete and have no real place left in place of generic List T
Best Answer
If you're using List you won't have to cast objects since it's generic and use a T[] backing storage (at least .net does this). ArrayList have to cast everything to object and cause boxing with value types.
So, use List.
Also, another reason to use List over ArrayList - the enumerator used in List is just plain faster. They couldn't change it when they went to generics due to backwards compatability, so you're left with a much slower implementation there
