[TCLCORE] Re: PROPOSAL: Limit memory doubling when appending to strings

[Dan K. <ku...@aj...>]

Brent the memory allocation algorithms you included in the
summary don't match those posted in Erics original post in
this thread (those in the patch).

>From Erics original post:

> Formerly, the growth algorithm was:
> 
>         newsize = 2 * (oldsize + appendsize)
> 
> Now, the growth algorithm is:
> 
>         if (oldsize + appendsize >= TCL_GROWTH_LARGE_STRING)
>             newsize = oldsize + (2 * appendsize) +  TCL_GROWTH_MIN_ALLOC
>         else 
>             newsize = 2 * (oldsize + appendsize)
>         endif
> 
> TCL_GROWTH_LARGE_STRING defaults to 1 megabyte; TCL_GROWTH_MIN_ALLOC
> defaults to 1 kilobyte, and is included to efficiently handle repeated
> small appends to a large string.

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