Ah, yes - it's coming full-circle. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/2879 - I must have subconsciously remembered your use of the term "shrink wrap".
On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 2:20:45 PM UTC-8, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > I don't think we have an API for this – I would suggest that > sizehint!(c,n) where n is smaller than the current size of the collection c > should do this, if someone wants to take a crack at it. > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Seth <catc...@bromberger.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Inspired by a discussion here: >> https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/14112#issuecomment-159715454, >> it might be nice to be able to reduce the amount of "padded" >> (allocated-but-not-yet-used) memory for dynamic structures in certain cases >> where we're not planning to expand the structures significantly (and can >> tolerate allocation delays if we do). >> >> Does a function that does something like this exist already? >> > >
