January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
316 pages
8h 8m
English
Content preview from Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with Rust
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Upsides
Other than it being only a few lines of code, the dynamic array has quite a few upsides:
- Speed: arrays/slices make things really fast
- Simple and fast element access
- Clear ownership structures
- Fast append and iteration
- Very CPU cache-friendly
One thing is clear: it's fast in many cases. When is the dynamic array not the best choice, though?