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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Rstat needs three size fields?
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Date: Tue,  8 Jul 2003 12:30:09 +0200
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> My rule of thumb used to be that whatever the biggest
> size you can imagine for some object, allocate twice
> as many bits to hold its size as seem sufficient.

as a reallocation strategy i take what i have and then double it.
this is when i'm dealing with something that's going to 'grow'
and i don't want to have to realloc for each new 'element'.