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I want to check if the value is in a set without looping through it to check if the value is present in the set to improve efficiency. Is that possible?

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You should use HashSet as it will use hashing, using a list won't be useful because you probably don't want repeating elements is you are using a set. I think if you want repeating elements then you should use a different DS.

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With a HashSet, the contains(obj) will check if obj is in the set in O(1) time.
With a TreeSet, it'll be O(log n) time.

However, if you use a List, then contains() will take O(N) time.

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