Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > - a geometric increase in existing size; we'll switch to 3/2 instead of > 2 here. That's less aggressive and may help avoid fragmenting memory > (N + 3N/2 > 9N/4, so old chunks can be reused as we scale up). I am sure this is something obvious to bitmap folks, but where does 9N/4 come from (I get that the left-hand-side of the comparison is the memory necessary to hold both the old and the new copy while reallocating the words[] array)? Thanks.
