On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:29, grauzone <n...@example.net> wrote: > Many of these names (including shrinkToFit) suggest that memory usage is > reduced by freeing the left over memory after the array. This is not true: > the function just enables stomping of the memory past the slice passed to > the function. > > It's a very specialized and dangerous function (but still may be critical > for good performance), and maybe it should rather have a more > convoluted/long name than a simple one. >
enableStomping? recycle? Anyway IANANES (I'm not a native English speaker), so I'll let Steven decide. Philippe
