As the documentation says, a Vector and an ArrayList are almost equivalent. The difference is that access to a Vector is synchronized, whereas access to an ArrayList is not. What this means is that only one thread can call methods on a Vector at a time, and there's a slight overhead in acquiring the lock; if you use an ArrayList, this isn't the case. Generally, you'll want to use an ArrayList; in the single-threaded case it's a better choice, and in the multi-threaded case, you get better control over locking. Want to allow concurrent reads? Fine. Want to perform one synchronization for a batch of ten writes? Also fine. It does require a little more care on your end, but it's likely what you want. Also note that if you have an ArrayList, you can use the Collections.synchronizedList function to create a synchronized list, thus getting you the equivalent of a Vector.

As the documentation says, a Vector and an ArrayList are almost equivalent. The difference is that access to a Vector is synchronized, whereas access to an ArrayList is not. What this means is that only one thread can call methods on a Vector at a time, and there's a slight overhead in acquiring the lock; if you use an ArrayList, this isn't the case. Generally, you'll want to use an ArrayList; in the single-threaded case it's a better choice, and in the multi-threaded case, you get better control over locking. Want to allow concurrent reads? Fine. Want to perform one synchronization for a batch of ten writes? Also fine. It does require a little more care on your end, but it's likely what you want. Also note that if you have an ArrayList, you can use the Collections.synchronizedList function to create a synchronized list, thus getting you the equivalent of a Vector.

差异

向量是同步的，数组列表 不是。 数据增长方法

如果对vector没有特殊要求，请使用数组列表。

同步

如果多个线程同时访问一个数组列表，那么我们必须从外部同步修改列表结构或简单修改元素的代码块。结构修改是指从列表中添加或删除元素。设置现有元素的值不是结构修改。

集合。synchronizedList通常在创建列表时使用，以避免对列表的任何意外非同步访问。

数据增长

在内部，ArrayList和Vector都使用Array保存它们的内容。当一个元素被插入到一个数组列表或Vector对象中时，如果它的空间不足，对象将需要扩展它的内部数组。Vector默认将其数组大小增加一倍，而ArrayList则将其数组大小增加50%。

ArrayList更新，速度快20-30%。

如果你不需要在Vector中显式地使用一些东西，请使用ArrayList

在向量和数组列表之间有两个主要的区别。

默认情况下，Vector是同步的，而ArrayList不是。 注意:通过将ArrayList对象传递给Collections.synchronizedList()方法，可以使ArrayList也同步化。 Synchronized意味着:它可以与多个线程一起使用而没有任何副作用。 当空间不足以容纳新元素时，数组列表的大小将增长到先前大小的50%，而当没有空间容纳新传入元素时，as Vector将增长到先前大小的100%。

除此之外，就编程工作而言，它们之间还有一些实际的区别:

To get the element at a particular location from Vector we use elementAt(int index) function. This function name is very lengthy. In place of this in ArrayList we have get(int index) which is very easy to remember and to use. Similarly to replace an existing element with a new element in Vector we use setElementAt() method, which is again very lengthy and may irritate the programmer to use repeatedly. In place of this ArrayList has add(int index, object) method which is easy to use and remember. Like this they have more programmer friendly and easy to use function names in ArrayList.

什么时候用哪个?

尽量避免完全使用vector。数组列表能做向量能做的所有事情。默认情况下，数组列表是不同步的。如果您愿意，可以使用Collections util类在需要时同步它。 ArrayList函数名易于记忆和使用。

注意:即使数组列表增长了100%，也可以通过ensurecapacity()方法避免这种情况，以确保在初始阶段本身分配了足够的内存。

希望能有所帮助。

Vector是一个破碎的类，它不是线程安全的，尽管它是“同步的”，而且只被学生和其他没有经验的程序员使用。

ArrayList是专业人员和有经验的程序员使用的List实现。

专业人士想要一个线程安全的列表实现使用CopyOnWriteArrayList。