Re: [PATCH 1/9] reftable: introduce macros to grow arrays

Patrick Steinhardt [off-list ref] writes:

Very good point indeed. I don't think peak memory usage is really all
that helpful either because the problem is not that we are allocating
arrays that we keep around all the time, but many small arrays which are
short lived. So what is telling is the total number of bytes we end up
allocating:

True.  sum of requested sizes to all the calls to malloc() and
friends to allocate, ignoring what gets free()d in between, is what
would show how much we try to consume.

Allocating 21 times as many bytes with our default growth factor should
be a much more compelling argument why we don't actually want to use it
compared to the 2% speedup.

;-).