Wrappers of primitive types in arraylist vs arrays
- by ismail marmoush
Hi, In "Core java 1" I've read
CAUTION: An ArrayList is far
less efficient than an int[] array
because each value is separately
wrapped inside an object. You would
only want to use this construct for
small collections when programmer
convenience is more important than
efficiency.
But in my software I've already used Arraylist instead of normal arrays due to some requirements, though "The software is supposed to have high performance and after I've read the quoted text I started to panic!" one thing I can change is changing double variables to Double so as to prevent auto boxing and I don't know if that is worth it or not, in next sample algorithm
public void multiply(final double val)
{
final int rows = getSize1();
final int cols = getSize2();
for (int i = 0; i < rows; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < cols; j++)
{
this.get(i).set(j, this.get(i).get(j) * val);
}
}
}
My question is does changing double to Double makes a difference ? or that's a micro optimizing that won't affect anything ? keep in mind I might be using large matrices.2nd Should I consider redesigning the whole program again ?
