On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Miller Puckette wrote:
Well, me, I think it's better to preallocate the table objects to a size
at least as large as will be needed, in advance.
Most language implementations nowadays distinguish between "capacity" and
"size", which is a kind of "physical vs logical" opposition (in old
computer jargon). That is, from a usage point of view, the array may look
small, but it has a guarantee to be able to grow forward and/or grow back
by certain amounts. That way an array can signify the actual size of data
while preallocating all that will ever be needed; though in almost all
cases this is done for other reasons instead.
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