How does it work the increase of Array Capacity in Swift? - ios

I read in Apple Docs:
"When you add elements to an array and that array begins to exceed its reserved capacity, the array allocates a larger region of memory and copies its elements into the new storage. The new storage is a multiple of the old storage’s size."
So, I opened the Playground and created some examples. The first example seems correct:
var array = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
array.capacity //5
array.append(contentsOf: [6, 7, 8, 9, 10])
array.capacity //10
array.append(11)
array.capacity //20
But I didn't understand the second example:
var array = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
array.capacity //5
array.append(contentsOf: [6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11])
array.capacity //12
array.append(12)
array.capacity //12
Why is the capacity 12 in the second example? I didn't understand even reading the documentation and searching in Google.

I recommend you to check Rob and Matt's answers here
Even though there's a reserveCapacity function, it's not advised
from the docs:
The Array type’s append(:) and append(contentsOf:) methods take care of this detail for you, but reserveCapacity(:) allocates only as much space as you tell it to (padded to a round value), and no more. This avoids over-allocation, but can result in insertion not having amortized constant-time performance.

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Following code shows how to keep the first 3 elements of each mod2 group without changing the order.
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map -> map.clear());
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Why is tuple formatting limited to 12 items in Rust?

I just started a tutorial in Rust and I can't get my head around the limitation of tuple printing:
fn main() {
// Tuple definition
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let long = (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12);
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}
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As for why you need special support for that, consider the following tuple:
let mixed = (42, true, 3.14, "foo");
How you would iterate this tuple, given that all its elements have a different type? This can't simply be done using regular iterators and a for loop. You would need some new type-level syntax, which Rust is currently lacking.
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Lua - unpack then pack an array

If I unpack then pack an array:
arr = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}
arr = table.pack(table.unpack(arr))
Will I guarantee that the resulting arr is the same as the initial arr?
In the documentation it states:
Note that the resulting table may not be a sequence.
What does this mean?
The documentation you cite is talking about nils as in
table.pack(1,nil,3).
Your table is a sequence and so table.unpack(arr) outputs no nils and table.pack(table.unpack(arr)) is a sequence.
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How data layout in RAM memory?

I have a basic architecture based question. How does multi dimensional arrays layout in memory? Is this correct that data layout linearly in memory? Is so, is it correct that in row major order data store based on row orders (first row store, then second row ...) and in column major data stores based on columns?
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Example in C:
int matrix[10][10];
matrix[9][1] = 1234;
printf("%d\n", matrix[9][1]); // prints 1234
printf("%d\n", ((int*)matrix)[9 * 10 + 1]); // prints 1234
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For example, if instead of using an array of arrays you decide to dynamically allocate your matrix:
int **matrix;
matrix = malloc(10 * sizeof(int*));
for (int i = 0; i < 10; ++i)
matrix[i] = malloc(10 * sizeof(int));
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Lua, seial number replacement

Part of my code is like this:
Load_name:addLoad({'incrementalnodalload', 7, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10})
the last part (I mean 1,2,...,10) can be extended as much as required (for example 1,2,...,1000).
Thus I want to replace this part with something like this:
Load_name:addLoad({'incrementalnodalload', 7, 1, inc_number})
inc_number = 1:1000
However, it does not work!
Any suggestion is highly appreciated!
Here is inc_number function that accepts two parameters and does what you need in this context:
function inc_number(f,t)
if f > t then return else return f,inc_number(f+1,t) end
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Note that it only works when the result of inc_number call is the last parameter in the list of parameters. Example:
print(table.concat({inc_number(1,10)}, ","))
-- prints: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10

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