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Arrays & Lists: Core Concepts

Arrays and lists store ordered collections but make different representation tradeoffs. Sequences appear in text buffers, stacks, queues, adjacency lists, memory allocators, collections, media buffers, and nearly every application storing ordered data.

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Arrays and lists store ordered collections but make different representation tradeoffs.

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Array indexing computes an address from base plus index times element size.

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Operation counting and benchmarks show constant-time array indexing versus linear traversal in linked lists.