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asgard1024
on Nov 4, 2014
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Please grow your buffers exponentially
While I agree with the gist of the article, is the recommendation to use powers of 2 as the size correct? Every allocator adds a small overhead to the size, so one could be better off by using sizes like 2^n - 16 or so..
Dewie
on Nov 4, 2014
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It isn't necessarily a power of two, since the initial capacity might not be a power of two.
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