在. net中，列表被表示为数组。因此，与LinkedList相比，使用普通List会更快。这就是为什么上面的人看到他们看到的结果。

Why should you use the List? I would say it depends. List creates 4 elements if you don't have any specified. The moment you exceed this limit, it copies stuff to a new array, leaving the old one in the hands of the garbage collector. It then doubles the size. In this case, it creates a new array with 8 elements. Imagine having a list with 1 million elements, and you add 1 more. It will essentially create a whole new array with double the size you need. The new array would be with 2Mil capacity however, you only needed 1Mil and 1. Essentially leaving stuff behind in GEN2 for the garbage collector and so on. So it can actually end up being a huge bottleneck. You should be careful about that.

链表相对于数组的主要优点是，链接为我们提供了有效地重新排列项的能力。 塞奇威克，第91页

当您需要内置索引访问、排序(以及二进制搜索之后)和“ToArray()”方法时，您应该使用List。

我之前的回答不够准确。 D是正确答案 但现在我可以发布更有用和正确的答案。

我做了一些额外的检查您可以通过以下链接找到它的源代码，并在您自己的环境中通过https://github.com/ukushu/DataStructuresTestsAndOther.git重新检查它

短的结果:

Array need to use: So often as possible. It's fast and takes smallest RAM range for same amount information. If you know exact count of cells needed If data saved in array < 85000 b (85000/32 = 2656 elements for integer data) If needed high Random Access speed List need to use: If needed to add cells to the end of list (often) If needed to add cells in the beginning/middle of the list (NOT OFTEN) If data saved in array < 85000 b (85000/32 = 2656 elements for integer data) If needed high Random Access speed LinkedList need to use: If needed to add cells in the beginning/middle/end of the list (often) If needed only sequential access (forward/backward) If you need to save LARGE items, but items count is low. Better do not use for large amount of items, as it's use additional memory for links.

更多的细节:

有趣的是:

LinkedList<T> internally is not a List in .NET. It's even does not implement IList<T>. And that's why there are absent indexes and methods related to indexes. LinkedList<T> is node-pointer based collection. In .NET it's in doubly linked implementation. This means that prior/next elements have link to current element. And data is fragmented -- different list objects can be located in different places of RAM. Also there will be more memory used for LinkedList<T> than for List<T> or Array. List<T> in .Net is Java's alternative of ArrayList<T>. This means that this is array wrapper. So it's allocated in memory as one contiguous block of data. If allocated data size exceeds 85000 bytes, it will be moved to Large Object Heap. Depending on the size, this can lead to heap fragmentation(a mild form of memory leak). But in the same time if size < 85000 bytes -- this provides a very compact and fast-access representation in memory. Single contiguous block is preferred for random access performance and memory consumption but for collections that need to change size regularly a structure such as an Array generally need to be copied to a new location whereas a linked list only needs to manage the memory for the newly inserted/deleted nodes.

使用LinkedList的常见情况是这样的:

假设您想要从一个字符串列表中删除许多特定的字符串，这些字符串的大小很大，比如100,000。要删除的字符串可以在HashSet dic中查找，字符串列表中应该包含30,000到60,000个这样的需要删除的字符串。

那么用于存储100,000个字符串的列表的最佳类型是什么?答案是LinkedList。如果它们存储在数组列表中，则遍历它并删除匹配的字符串将占用 到数十亿次操作，而使用迭代器和remove()方法只需要大约100,000次操作。

LinkedList<String> strings = readStrings();
HashSet<String> dic = readDic();
Iterator<String> iterator = strings.iterator();
while (iterator.hasNext()){
    String string = iterator.next();
    if (dic.contains(string))
    iterator.remove();
}

Edit

请阅读对这个答案的评论。人们说我没有 适当的测试。我同意这不应该是一个可以接受的答案。就像我一样 我做了一些测试，想和大家分享。

最初的回答…

我发现了有趣的结果:

// Temporary class to show the example
class Temp
{
    public decimal A, B, C, D;

    public Temp(decimal a, decimal b, decimal c, decimal d)
    {
        A = a;            B = b;            C = c;            D = d;
    }
}

链表(3.9秒)

        LinkedList<Temp> list = new LinkedList<Temp>();

        for (var i = 0; i < 12345678; i++)
        {
            var a = new Temp(i, i, i, i);
            list.AddLast(a);
        }

        decimal sum = 0;
        foreach (var item in list)
            sum += item.A;

列表(2.4秒)

        List<Temp> list = new List<Temp>(); // 2.4 seconds

        for (var i = 0; i < 12345678; i++)
        {
            var a = new Temp(i, i, i, i);
            list.Add(a);
        }

        decimal sum = 0;
        foreach (var item in list)
            sum += item.A;

即使你只是访问数据，本质上也要慢得多!!我说永远不要使用linkedList。

下面是另一个执行大量插入的比较(我们计划在列表中间插入一个项)

链表(51秒)

        LinkedList<Temp> list = new LinkedList<Temp>();

        for (var i = 0; i < 123456; i++)
        {
            var a = new Temp(i, i, i, i);

            list.AddLast(a);
            var curNode = list.First;

            for (var k = 0; k < i/2; k++) // In order to insert a node at the middle of the list we need to find it
                curNode = curNode.Next;

            list.AddAfter(curNode, a); // Insert it after
        }

        decimal sum = 0;
        foreach (var item in list)
            sum += item.A;

榜单(7.26秒)

        List<Temp> list = new List<Temp>();

        for (var i = 0; i < 123456; i++)
        {
            var a = new Temp(i, i, i, i);

            list.Insert(i / 2, a);
        }

        decimal sum = 0;
        foreach (var item in list)
            sum += item.A;

有插入位置引用的链表(。04秒)

        list.AddLast(new Temp(1,1,1,1));
        var referenceNode = list.First;

        for (var i = 0; i < 123456; i++)
        {
            var a = new Temp(i, i, i, i);

            list.AddLast(a);
            list.AddBefore(referenceNode, a);
        }

        decimal sum = 0;
        foreach (var item in list)
            sum += item.A;

因此，只有当你计划插入几个项目，并且你也在某个地方有你计划插入项目的引用时，才使用链表。只是因为你必须插入很多项，这并不会使它更快，因为搜索你想要插入的位置需要时间。