[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#9947) insane inefficiency in packet sending

["Raimar Falke" <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9947 >

On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 09:49:33PM -0700, Jason Short wrote:
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> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9947 >
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> Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:
> > <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9947 >
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> > On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Jason Short wrote:
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> >><URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9947 >
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> >>This patch should fix things, and make them simpler as well.
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> >>However I can find no noticeable improvement on my system.  I wonder if
> >>I am timing things wrong, or if glibc's realloc uses an algorithm
> >>similar to specvec's for O(1) ammortized reallocation...
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> > I read code of realloc once, it tries very hard not to copy things around
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> If realloc is optimal then we don't need specvec at all...
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> But if even one platform uses a naive implementation then it's worth 
> using specvec.

specvec provides type safety. That is at least for me the major selling
point.

        Raimar