On 12/04/2016 11:28 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Hi, > > If I use an array to hold a list of say Integers. Is there any serious > performance penalty for resizing (growing) the dynamic array as I add > items. My point being, I don't know the number of elements I'll need > beforehand. > The problem with enlarging big dynamic arrays is that AFAIK there always is a move operation of the whole existing data. Libc realloc() on the other hand only relocates the pointer of a virtual memory block if possible.
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