Data Structures Primer: The Structures Underneath the Containers

This volume goes straight for the memory layouts and invalidation rules of the STL containers — but containers don't appear out of thin air: behind vector sits a dynamic array, behind map a red-black tree, behind unordered_map a hash table. If you've never laid hands on these structures themselves, reading the implementation-level articles is like touring the second floor of a building before you've ever seen its foundation. This sub-series sorts them out one by one: each piece covers exactly one structure — which problem it solves, where the costs hide — with evidence from real runs and diagrams; once a structure has had its turn, we hand it back to the corresponding container deep dive and to the hand-rolling practice.

STARTFINISHDynamic Arrays: A Block of Memory That Moves House→STARTFINISHLinked Lists: Never Move House — the Cost Is Asking the Way→

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• the vol3 containers volume: the conceptual layer over the std containers, downstream of this series
• the vol8 mini STL series: hand-roll the containers with your own hands — the hands-on extension of this series