Does Kotlin or Kotlin/Native specifically I suppos...

# kotlin-native

[Krystian]

Does Kotlin or Kotlin/Native specifically I suppose have an array that stores its elements in a contiguous block of memory? Something like Swifts ContiguousArray? Or is would the standard Array be the closest bet?

[kevin.cianfarini]

I am happy to be schooled here, but my understand is that in Kotlin, high level collection types like List<T> are guaranteed to be stored in contiguous blocks of memory, but Array<T> and primitive array types are.

That’s why arrays have to have a pre-defined size as they’re being allocated as a single block of memory up front.