monarch_dodra:
But that (of new arrays) is a bad design, it wastes too much
memory, and I think it should be fixed. In Python this doesn't
overallocate:
So what? The only thing you showed, is that
minimallyInitialized doesn't know how much it allocated. If you
allocate 513 elements with malloc, you'll way over allocate
too. What's your point?
You'll waste memory either way.
I didn't know it, sorry. I forgot.
Can we let minimallyInitializedArray know the capacity?
Regarding the small arrays, so to avoid the memory wasting you
need to allocate a larger one and slice it.
Bye,
bearophile
