Hi,
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Kristian H?gsberg wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 21:36 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Kristian Høgsberg <krh@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > > +static void inline strbuf_grow(struct strbuf *sb, size_t extra)
> > > +{
> > > + while (sb->alloc < sb->len + extra)
> > > sb->alloc = sb->alloc * 3 / 2 + 16;
> > > + sb->buf = xrealloc(sb->buf, sb->alloc);
> > > +}
> >
> > Somehow this while () loop to compute the growth factor bothers
> > me but that is probably a minor detail.
>
> Think of it as a more efficient way of adding one character at a time :)
> And it's logarithmic in the number of extra bytes. By the way, I
> normally just double the size in these cases, which gives you amortized
> linear performance for adding to the buffer. What's behind the * 3 / 2
> idea?
But why not
sb->alloc = alloc_nr(sb->len + extra);
Hmm?
Ciao,
Dscho
