I have a function that will *massively* benefit from having a persistent internal buffer it can re-use (and grow) from call to call, instead of re-allocating on every call.

What I don't want is either of:
1. To set a fixed limitation of size, if the user ends up making repeated calls to something larger to my fixed size. 2. For a single big call which will allocate a HUGE internal buffer that will consume all my memory.

What I need is some sort of lazy buffer. Basically, the allocation holds, but I don't want the to prevent the GC from collecting it if it deems it has gotten too big, or needs more memory.

Any idea on how to do something like that? Or literature?

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