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From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
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Subject: Re: functions, packages & characters
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:47:41 -0500
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Hmmmmmm... Hadn't thought of that. I could see how that might perform well
for some expected usages, but might get nasty if you're doing lots of
reallocating. I was thinking along the lines of making a linked list of some
standard block size (like 64 bytes - 4 for a link & the rest data) which
might make it quick for appending but would no doubt suffer when you try to
do other things...

There are no perfect answers, are there? :-)

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"Matthew Heaney" <mheaney@on2.com> wrote in message
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> Often you (re)allocate the internal buffer in powers of 2, so it would
> require only a few iterations to acquire an adequately-sized buffer.
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