Analysis of RootishArrayStack
Explore the RootishArrayStack data structure to understand its dynamic grow and shrink procedures, amortized operation costs, and optimal space usage. Learn how it supports efficient get, set, add, and remove operations with balanced memory allocation, helping you optimize array-based lists in Python.
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Growing and shrinking
Note that, unlike the ArrayStack.resize() operation, grow() and shrink() do not copy any data. They only allocate or free an array of size ...
We note that, immediately after a call to grow() or shrink(), the situation is clear. The final block is completely empty, and all other blocks are completely full. Another call to grow() or shrink() will not happen until at least ...