id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,drp_resources,i_links,o_links,remaining_time,sprint 12385,Unnecessary thread safety from Vector?,mtbcarroll,mtbcarroll,"Bio-Formats uses `Vector` in plenty of places where I wonder if we don't need the synchronization overhead. Perhaps ignoring components like `bio-formats-plugins` and `forks`, I'd be happy to open PRs to try changing the code in autogen and the readers and suchlike to use `ArrayList` if that's judged desirable. Will await comment before actually going for it.",task,new,minor,Unscheduled,Bio-Formats,5.0.2,,improvement,bf@…,,,,,