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Subject: Re: [9fans] Rstat needs three size fields?
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From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
Date: Tue,  8 Jul 2003 18:19:29 -0400
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> > So you end up needing twice the memory anyway!
>
> not for just a count pass.

But what are you counting?  If you store all the data in a list so
that you can find out how big to make an array (are we assuming we're
getting the data from somewhere I can do more than one pass?), you
still use twice the memory when you allocate the array.

	- Dan C.