the overheads of hash-map are huge, especially on run-time. Tension: Items are hashed and the number of buckets can be adapted at runtime causing re-hashing of all items (quite expensive). Outcome: A `int[]` data type is a sequence of native (signed) integer (of typically 4 bytes) contiguously stored in memory.

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