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List Vs Queue

The document outlines the advanced differences between List and Queue in Java, highlighting their primary purposes, core implementations, and order guarantees. It details aspects such as thread safety, key methods, null support, and performance characteristics. Additionally, it discusses use cases, failure handling, bounded capacity, and iteration types for both data structures.

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List Vs Queue

The document outlines the advanced differences between List and Queue in Java, highlighting their primary purposes, core implementations, and order guarantees. It details aspects such as thread safety, key methods, null support, and performance characteristics. Additionally, it discusses use cases, failure handling, bounded capacity, and iteration types for both data structures.

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List vs.

Queue in Java - Advanced Differences

1. Primary Purpose:
- List: Ordered collection with index access (e.g., get(0)).
- Queue: Manages elements in processing order (FIFO, LIFO, priority).

2. Core Implementations:
- List: ArrayList, LinkedList, CopyOnWriteArrayList.
- Queue: ArrayDeque, PriorityQueue, BlockingQueue.

3. Order Guarantee:
- List: Insertion order unless sorted.
- Queue: FIFO (LinkedList), LIFO (Deque), or priority (PriorityQueue).

4. Thread Safety:
- List: Not thread-safe (use CopyOnWriteArrayList).
- Queue: Thread-safe options (e.g., BlockingQueue).

5. Key Methods:
- List: add(index, element), remove(index).
- Queue: offer(), poll(), peek().

6. Null Support:
- List: Allows null.
- Queue: Depends (ArrayDeque prohibits null).

7. Element Access:
- List: Direct via indices.
- Queue: Head/tail only (no indices).

8. Concurrency:
- List: Rarely concurrent.
- Queue: Built for concurrency (e.g., BlockingQueue).

9. Data Structure:
- List: Arrays (ArrayList) or linked nodes (LinkedList).
- Queue: Arrays (ArrayDeque) or heaps (PriorityQueue).

10. Performance:
- List: ArrayList (O(1) access), LinkedList (O(1) insertions).
- Queue: ArrayDeque (O(1) ops), PriorityQueue (O(log n)).

11. Use Cases:


- List: Ordered data storage.
- Queue: Task scheduling, BFS.

12. Failure Handling:


- List: add() throws exceptions.
- Queue: offer() returns false on failure.

13. Bounded Capacity:


- List: Unbounded.
- Queue: Bounded (e.g., ArrayBlockingQueue).

14. Iteration:
- List: Fail-fast iterators.
- Queue: Weakly consistent iterators.

15. Legacy vs. Modern:


- List: Modern (ArrayList), legacy (Vector).
- Queue: Modern (ArrayDeque), legacy (Stack replaced by Deque).

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