What is the performace difference in using List<T> vs LinkedList<T> say in the (c#) library [duplicate]

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When should I use a List vs a LinkedList

This question is related to my earlier question which was merged: related to List vs LinkedList

If I expect not to use the access by index for my data structure how much do I save by using LinkedList over List ? If if am not 100% sure I will never use access by index, I would like to know the difference.

Suppose I have N instances. inserting and removing in a LinkedList will only be a o(1) op , where as in List it may me be O(n), but since it it optimized, it would be nice to know what the difference is for some values of n. say N = 1,000,000 and N = 1,000,000,000

Answer 1

OK I did this experiment and here is the result:

This is the elapsed ticks for a list and linked list with 1000,000 items:

LinkedList 500 insert/remove operations: 10171
List 500 insert/remove operations: 968465

Linked list is 100 times faster when compared for 1000,000 items.

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Here is the code:

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {

        const int N = 1000*1000;
        Random r = new Random();
        LinkedList<int> linkedList = new LinkedList<int>();
        List<int> list = new List<int>();
        List<LinkedListNode<int>> linkedListNodes = new List<LinkedListNode<int>>();

        for (int i = 0; i < N; i++)
        {
            list.Add(r.Next());
            LinkedListNode<int> linkedListNode = linkedList.AddFirst(r.Next());
            if(r.Next() % 997 == 0)
                linkedListNodes.Add(linkedListNode);
        }

        Stopwatch stopwatch = new Stopwatch();

        stopwatch.Start();
        for (int i = 0; i < 500; i++)
        {
            linkedList.AddBefore(linkedListNodes[i], r.Next());
            linkedList.Remove(linkedListNodes[i]);
        }
        stopwatch.Stop();
        Console.WriteLine("LinkedList 500 insert/remove operations: {0}", stopwatch.ElapsedTicks);
        stopwatch.Reset();

        stopwatch.Start();
        for (int i = 0; i < 500; i++)
        {
            list.Insert(r.Next(0,list.Count), r.Next());
            list.RemoveAt(r.Next(0, list.Count));
        }
        stopwatch.Stop();
        Console.WriteLine("List 500 insert/remove operations: {0}", stopwatch.ElapsedTicks);


        Console.Read();
    }
}