Advantages of an Array

 Brushing up your array knowledge is of utmost importance especially if you are a programmer!

So today, we are going to discuss arrays, its related concepts like array rotation and its key benefits to the programmer.

An array is a data structure to store a specific data type. However, you need to know that an array has a definite size. This means that you will have to assign a certain memory to an array, depending upon the data type. 

For better understanding, consider an array as a collection of elements of a similar type. So, if you are storing an integer in an array, you can only store an integer in that array. You can not store character, float, or any other data type in an integer array.

Other than this, arrays are single-dimensional and multidimensional that you can use according to your requirement. There are different advantages associated with an array including reducing the code and reducing memory usage. 

Read on to know about these advantages in detail:

Arrays Are Cache Friendly

Values are stored close to each other in an array. So, the CPU can easily access it from the cache memory only. Because of this, iteration in an array becomes faster and saves you from extra computational steps that you have to carry out to access elements from the main memory. It will parse the array. Moreover, an array of references can take advantage of this fact. 

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