On Sep 29, 2010, at 12:41 PM, Tim Mooney wrote:
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> This is what I meant by "reallocate". I was imagining allocating the current RPCL
> size at record init (unless a calc expression already existed at that time that required
> more space), and from then on checking to ensure that RPCL is large enough when
> a new calc expression is written. Reallocating every time doesn't seem necessary;
> I'd reallocate only if RPCL must increase.
>
> I think fragmentation would not be a problem with an implementation like this, unless
> folks are just *hammering* on calc expressions with, say, stringout records. As far as
> I know, I'm the only one who's at all likely to do something as whacked out as that.
And even that wouldn't be a problem since at some point the RPCL field would have to reach a high-water mark and reallocations would cease.
>
> In any case, I would not have any problem with putting this off until after the upcoming
> release. I don't detect an urgency great enough to merit changing the implementation twice.
--
Eric Norum
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