要添加的另一个区别是线程同步。

ArrayList provides some thread-safety through the Synchronized property, which returns a thread-safe wrapper around the collection. The wrapper works by locking the entire collection on every add or remove operation. Therefore, each thread that is attempting to access the collection must wait for its turn to take the one lock. This is not scalable and can cause significant performance degradation for large collections. List<T> does not provide any thread synchronization; user code must provide all synchronization when items are added or removed on multiple threads concurrently.

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再加上以上几点。在64位操作系统中使用ArrayList占用的内存是32位操作系统的2倍。同时，泛型列表list <T>占用的内存比ArrayList少得多。

例如，如果我们在32位中使用一个19MB的数组列表，那么在64位中它将占用39MB。但是如果你有一个32位的8MB的通用列表list <int>，它在64位只需要8.1MB，这与ArrayList相比相差了481%。

来源:数组列表与通用列表的基本类型和64位

要添加的另一个区别是线程同步。

ArrayList provides some thread-safety through the Synchronized property, which returns a thread-safe wrapper around the collection. The wrapper works by locking the entire collection on every add or remove operation. Therefore, each thread that is attempting to access the collection must wait for its turn to take the one lock. This is not scalable and can cause significant performance degradation for large collections. List<T> does not provide any thread synchronization; user code must provide all synchronization when items are added or removed on multiple threads concurrently.

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ArrayList不是类型安全的，而List<T>是类型安全的。简单:)。

是的，差不多。List<T>是泛型类。它支持存储特定类型的值，而不强制转换为对象(当T是ArrayList情况下的值类型时，这会引起装箱/拆箱开销)。ArrayList仅存储对象引用。作为一个泛型集合，List<T>实现了泛型IEnumerable<T>接口，可以很容易地在LINQ中使用(不需要任何Cast或OfType调用)。

ArrayList属于c#没有泛型的时代。不赞成使用List<T>。你不应该在以。net >= 2.0为目标的新代码中使用ArrayList，除非你必须与使用它的旧API进行交互。

我认为，ArrayList和List<T>之间的区别是:

List<T>, where T is value-type is faster than ArrayList. This is because List<T> avoids boxing/unboxing (where T is value-type). Many sources say - usually ArrayList used just for backward compatibility. (is not a real difference, but i think it is important note). Reflection is easier with nongeneric ArrayList then List<T> ArrayList has IsSynchronized property. So, It is easy to create and use syncronised ArrayList. I didin't found IsSynchronized property for List<T>. Also Keep in mind this type of synchronization is relatively inefficient, msdn): var arraylist = new ArrayList(); var arrayListSyncronized = ArrayList.Synchronized(arraylist Console.WriteLine($"syncronized {arraylist.IsSynchronized}"); Console.WriteLine($"syncronized {arrayListSyncronized.IsSynchronized}"); var list = new List<object>(); var listSyncronized = ArrayList.Synchronized(list); Console.WriteLine($"syncronized {list.IsSynchronized}");//error, no such prop Console.WriteLine($"syncronized {list.IsSynchronized}");//error, no such prop ArrayList has ArrayList.SyncRoot property which can be used for syncronisation (msdn). List<T> hasn't SyncRoot property, so in the following construction you need to use some object if you use List<T>: ArrayList myCollection = new ArrayList(); lock(myCollection.SyncRoot) // ofcourse you can use another object for this goal { foreach (object item in myCollection) { // ... } }