Resizable-array implementation of the Deque interface. Array
deques have no capacity restrictions; they grow as necessary to support
usage. They are not thread-safe; in the absence of external
synchronization, they do not support concurrent access by multiple threads.
Null elements are prohibited. This class is likely to be faster than
Stack when used as a stack, and faster than LinkedList
when used as a queue.
Most ArrayDeque operations run in amortized constant time.
Exceptions include remove, removeFirstOccurrence, removeLastOccurrence, contains, iterator.remove(), and the bulk operations, all of which run in linear
time.
The iterators returned by this class's iterator method are
fail-fast: If the deque is modified at any time after the iterator
is created, in any way except through the iterator's own remove
method, the iterator will generally throw a ConcurrentModificationException. Thus, in the face of concurrent
modification, the iterator fails quickly and cleanly, rather than risking
arbitrary, non-deterministic behavior at an undetermined time in the
future.
Note that the fail-fast behavior of an iterator cannot be guaranteed
as it is, generally speaking, impossible to make any hard guarantees in the
presence of unsynchronized concurrent modification. Fail-fast iterators
throw ConcurrentModificationException on a best-effort basis.
Therefore, it would be wrong to write a program that depended on this
exception for its correctness: the fail-fast behavior of iterators
should be used only to detect bugs.
This class and its iterator implement all of the
optional methods of the Collection and Iterator interfaces.
This class is a member of the Java Collections Framework.
extends
<E> | the type of elements held in this collection |