On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 10:00 AM 'Dan Kortschak' via golang-nuts < golang-nuts@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> There is a reason for choosing a factor less than 2; released blocks > during reallocation are able to be reused in later allocations (for the > same slice when grown — something that cannot happen for the case of 2 > or greater). This sounds interesting, but I don't understand it. Would you be willing to expand on this? > Interestingly, Go uses the 1.25× factor while others > appear to use values in the range of 1.5× to less than 2×, with a claim > that phi is the optimum. > > There is no discussion in the introduction of append for the choice of > the growth factor: https://codereview.appspot.com/2757042 > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/bcf24b8e53f3bc6aafb186ced57b614b4ecf4891.camel%40kortschak.io > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAEkBMfE7RDShq3K6gfhvUWbjykMJ9%3DzooQ1PzrvwiPiEcTtDEQ%40mail.gmail.com.
