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C# C# Collections Lists Lists

Carel Du Plessis
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Internally, items inside of a List are stored in an array.

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Internally, items inside of a List are stored in an array.

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Correct answer True

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Brendan Whiting
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Arrays require us to explicitly manage the size of the array. If we need more spots in memory than we originally provisioned, we have to create a new array that's larger and manually copy into it. Lists have a nicer interface that doesn't require the developer to code all of this logic, but under the hood they're still arrays and this work is being done for you.

When it comes to knowing the efficiency of your algorithms it's important to know that ultimately they're still arrays,