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Explain yourselves, comp sci. (mander.xyz)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Contiguous storage is very fast in terms of iteration though often offsetting the cost of allocation

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Modern CPUs are also extremely efficient at dealing with contiguous data structures. Branch prediction and caching get to shine on them.

Avoiding memory access or helping CPU access it all upfront switches physical domain of computation.