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Re:A list of lists of interview questions on Monday December 31, 2018 @08:37AM (#18794417)
Sometimes pushing into a vector is O(n), but typically not. So it’s the penalty of allocating new data memory when the underlying array needs a resize that’s amortized for multiple push calls.

Similarly with a typical hashmap, the keyspace should occasionally collide, meaning non-edgecases would amortize to O(1) for multiple inserts.