memory management of array

[Michel Fortin]

On 2008-12-19 17:01:48 -0500, "Bill Baxter" <wbaxter at gmail.com> said:

> In addition to what other people have said, if you know the length the
> array will be eventually you can preallocate by doing this:
> 
> float[] arr;
> arr.length = N;
> arr.length = 0;

The downside of reserving this way is that it'll initialize all the 
array elements you're reserving with a default value for no reason at 
all. I think reserve should be part of the language so we can avoid 
this.


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