Stream: compiler development

Topic: roc_realloc API


view this post on Zulip Richard Feldman (Apr 12 2024 at 23:52):

interesting comments about reallocation APIs!

https://lobste.rs/s/hgtpg0/why_is_there_no_realloc_takes_number_bytes

view this post on Zulip Brendan Hansknecht (Apr 13 2024 at 01:00):

Weirdly, I feel like the main article is mostly an unimportant edge case. Like I want it, but if I had it, I wouldn't expect it to make a practice difference in performance in essentially any software.

view this post on Zulip Brendan Hansknecht (Apr 13 2024 at 01:02):

I do like the explicit nature of the zig API as well.


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