Rollup merge of #64703 - llogiq:slices-elems-are-equidistant, r=rkruppe

Docs: slice elements are equidistant

Recently, someone asked why `[char]` and `str` are not interchangeable, and I explained that in a slice, the elements must be laid out equidistantly, whereas the chars in a `str` are stored compactly regardless their size. However I couldn't find this documented anywhere, so here's a small addition of this fact.
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@ -566,7 +566,9 @@ mod prim_array { }
#[doc(alias = "[")]
#[doc(alias = "]")]
#[doc(alias = "[]")]
/// A dynamically-sized view into a contiguous sequence, `[T]`.
/// A dynamically-sized view into a contiguous sequence, `[T]`. Contiguous here
/// means that elements are layed out so that every element is the same
/// distance from its neighbors.
///
/// *[See also the `std::slice` module](slice/index.html).*
///