Github user davisp commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/couchdb-snappy/pull/9#discussion_r225681578
--- Diff: c_src/snappy_nif.cc ---
@@ -100,6 +94,21 @@ SnappyNifSink::getBin()
}
+void
+SnappyNifSink::EnsureSize(size_t append_length)
+{
+ if((length + append_length) > bin.size) {
+ size_t sz = append_length * 4;
--- End diff --
I have no idea why 4 was picked originally but that's not an architecture
thing I don't think? Its just pre-allocating more space than required so that
we aren't reallocating for every single append operation. That could be 3 or 5
or 8,000,000.
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