contiguous memory

RU: контигуозная память

Contiguous memory is a block of memory addresses where elements are stored consecutively with no gaps, as in an array. Because successive elements occupy adjacent addresses, a single cache-line load brings several elements into cache at once, enabling spatial locality and allowing the CPU prefetcher to predict and load upcoming elements before they are requested. Linked structures that scatter nodes across the heap lose this benefit and incur more cache misses.