As new nodes are appended TFPList.Expand is called
And there is:
if FCapacity > 127 then Inc(IncSize, FCapacity shr 2);
So if I have in list 1 000 000 items, then at once list is expanded by
250 000, which causes in one step out of memory
So my question is: can I somehow control increment count ? I think that
ATM no.
So second question is can TFPList.Expand be modified, that for large
FCapacity will be used smaller increment ? :-)
TMemoryStream also has this behaviour, and indeed I override it in my own
applications to let the growth taper off after 128MB. If you have a lot of
midsized memory streams, it otherwise results in having 25%/2 = 12.5%
unused memory lieing around.
But of course all datastructures based on a single array (and thus inviting
very large block allocations) are fundamentally flawed because of it in the
first place.
What about to simply adjust Expand procedure like:
if FCapacity > 8*1024*1024 then IncSize := FCapacity shr 3
else if FCapacity > 128 then IncSize := FCapacity shr 2
else if FCapacity > 8 then IncSize := 16
else IncSize := 4;
SetCapacity(FCapacity + IncSize);
-Laco.
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