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    arrays and vectors

    Do arrays have any advantages over vectors?

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    Sure - reading/writting/traversing an array is little faster and contains no memory overhead (other than the array contents).

    Arrays are fixed in size don't dynamically grow and shrink easily/quickly - this is where vector comes in.

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