[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#8800) [RFC] Usage of speclist vs specvec

["Raimar Falke" <i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 09:57:09PM -0700, Jason Short wrote:
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> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8800 >
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> Raimar Falke wrote:
> > <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8800 >
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> > On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 12:40:43PM -0700, Raimar Falke wrote:
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> >>Date: Fri May 21 19:26:30 2004-Fri May 21 19:26:30 2004
> >>Author: vas
> >>  Use specvecs instead of realloc'ed array in city dialog
> >>  (PR#8781).
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> > Here speclist would be also possible.
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> > Can we define some criteria when to use the vector and when the list?
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> If indexed lookups are used a lot specvec is better.

I think this is a bit bold to say. If you for example change the size
a lot the list has less overhead (malloc + copy).

        Raimar

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