On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:25:44 +0200, Don <nos...@nospam.com> wrote: >Yes, but you could allocate the data immediately after the Array >structure, so you only have one allocation. And in the common case, >where it never exceeds the original capacity, they stay together and >preserve cache locality. > > void *data; // = &raw_data; > size_t length; > size_t capacity; // = 512 > ubyte[512] raw_data;
Great! And if the length later exceeds the capacity, try to reallocate in place. If impossible, allocate a new block, copy the data, adjust the data pointer and shrink the original block to the size of the Array struct. Right?
