I've labelled that as "up for grabs" and "intro" since it should be pretty straightforward to do.
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Seth <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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? >>> >> >>
