Re: [platform-swt-dev] java.util.Vector versus java.util.List

[Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt@xxxxxxxxx>]

For a long time it was Eclipse's goal to run on very old jvms including j2me, which only had Vector and not List. On modern systems the cost of synchronised - the key difference between that and list - has all but gone away. 

My opinion at least. 

Alex

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On 19 Jul 2013, at 14:26, sylvain mouquet <sylvain.mouquet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

I am wondering why SWT use Vector and not List.

By example in the class org.eclipse.swt.custom.StyledText :

684   class RTFWriter extends TextWriter {

685   static final int DEFAULT_FOREGROUND = 0;

686   static final int DEFAULT_BACKGROUND = 1;

687   Vector colorTable, fontTable;

688   boolean WriteUnicode;

It's legacy code ? SWT needs to use synchronized list ?

Thanks in advance,

Sylvain

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