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I want to make a finite automata in java; is it more efficient using vector or set?
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which one do you prefer?
I want to make a finite automata in java; is it more efficient using vector or set?
A Vector is a class. A Set is an interface. I would use an ArrayList instead of a Vector anyway, if you’re not doing something that needs to be threadsafe. Or a standard array if it’s not going to get resized.
It really depends on your application though. Specifically, Sets don’t allow duplicate elements, whereas Arrays (Arraylists, Vectors) do.
Personally I would use an array, unless it needed to have some kind of special functionality (resizing, no duplicate elements, etc.)