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Investigate insertion in the middle of ArrayList vs LinkedList.

Results

As shown below, insertion in ArrayList takes much less time instead of LinkedList.

Filling java.util.ArrayList with 1000000 elements ... done
Filling java.util.LinkedList with 1000000 elements ... done

Time elapsed for java.util.ArrayList: 3 ms
Time elapsed for java.util.LinkedList: 15 ms

Why?

The source code of java.util.ArrayList.add(int, E) method (Java 11):

The source code of java.util.LinkedList.add(int, E) method (Java 11):

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