I have two lists of Bill objects that have date field that represents month when the bill was created. I need to add some objects from bills list to oldBills. If there are no bill with the same data in oldBills list, then bill should be added.
I implemented it this way:
outer:
for (Bill bill : bills) {
Date billDate = bill.getDate();
for (Bill bill1 : oldBills) {
Date bill1Date = bill1.getDate();
if (Objects.equals(billDate, bill1Date)) {
continue outer;
}
}
newBills.add(bill);
}
oldBills.addAll(newBills);
but I think that this is not the best way.
May be you have any ideas, how to optimize this algorithm?
p.s.: java 7