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adrusi on April 14, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is WebAssembly magic performance pixie dust?

Eh, at the point you're tuning the growth factor, you might consider just not using a dynamically sized array

eru on April 14, 2021 [–]

Depends on whether you are talking about tuning the growth factor for a single instance, or whether you are talking about tuning the default growth factor in general.

Eg Python has put a lot of thought into their dynamic array (and dict) growth factors.

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