Use case: eliminate hidden allocations in buildPath

[Marco Leise]

Am Sat, 7 Dec 2013 13:27:07 -0500
schrieb Michel Fortin <michel.fortin at michelf.ca>:

> […] The way to fix that with an output range would be to have 
> have a "reserve" function telling the range "prepare yourself to 
> receive that much data", which may or may not do something depending on 
> the kind of output range it is.

This could even preallocate blocks on a filesystem for file
record based output ranges. (In order to avoid
file fragmentation on mechanical disks.)

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Marco