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Explain yourselves, comp sci.
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Rules
dynamically-sized: The size of it can change as needed.
list: It stores multiple things together.
object: A bit of programmer defined data.
of the same type: all the objects in the list are defined the same way
stored contigiously in memory: if you think of memory as a bookshelf then all the objects on the list would be stored right next to each other on the bookshelf rather than spread across the bookshelf.
Dynamically sized but stored contiguously makes the systems performance engineer in me weep. If the lists get big, the kernel is going to do so much churn.
Which is why you should:
Vec
doubles in size every time it runs out of space)Memory is fairly cheap. Allocation time not so much.