Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes: > Very good point indeed. I don't think peak memory usage is really all > that helpful either because the problem is not that we are allocating > arrays that we keep around all the time, but many small arrays which are > short lived. So what is telling is the total number of bytes we end up > allocating: True. sum of requested sizes to all the calls to malloc() and friends to allocate, ignoring what gets free()d in between, is what would show how much we try to consume. > Allocating 21 times as many bytes with our default growth factor should > be a much more compelling argument why we don't actually want to use it > compared to the 2% speedup. ;-).
