AppliedMultiple choice
A hot-path buffer is a dynamic array with amortised push. Why might that still be unacceptable?
- AThe amortised bound is wrong for arrays
- BThe occasional reallocation is a tail-latency spike
- CArrays have poor cache locality
- DAmortised analysis assumes random inputs
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