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asgard1024 on Nov 4, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Please grow your buffers exponentially

While I agree with the gist of the article, is the recommendation to use powers of 2 as the size correct? Every allocator adds a small overhead to the size, so one could be better off by using sizes like 2^n - 16 or so..

Dewie on Nov 4, 2014 [–]

It isn't necessarily a power of two, since the initial capacity might not be a power of two.

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