- previously had special resizing treatment for the corner case when
the addressable size and the new capacity are identical. However,
that particular approach (to minimize copying) meant that the exact
deallocation size would likely be incorrect.
Having the correct deallocation size becomes more important with
alternative allocators.
Introduce resize_copy() protected function to limit the number
of elements copied during the resize.
ENH: provide DynamicList/DynamicField constructor with sizing
- allows fine-grained creation of a DynamicList/DynamicField with a
given size/capacity without an initial value.
COMP: typo in code for DynamicList::push_back() with IndirectList
- becoming more frequently used and there is no ambiguity in calling
parameters either - identity(label) vs identity(labelUList&).
Provide both int32 and int64 versions.
- shrink_to_fit()
corresponds to std::vector naming.
For DynamicList it is a *binding* request.
- shrink_unsafe()
simply adjusts the capacity() to match the
current size() without forcing a re-allocation.
Useful when collapsing to a non-dynamic list to avoid reallocation
and copying contents. The memory cleanup will still occur properly
at a later stage.
- DynamicList::swap(List&)
simple recovery of content into a non-dynamic List that also
ensures that the capacity is correctly updated.
STYLE: promote List::capacity() to public visibility (like std::vector)
STYLE: remove unused expandStorage() method
- simply a wrapper for resize(capacity())
- the size of a List often requires adjustment prior to an operation,
but old values (if any) are not of interest and will be overwritten.
In these cases can use the _nocopy versions to avoid additional memory
overhead of the intermediate list and the copy/move overhead of
retaining the old values (that we will subsequently discard anyhow).
No equivalent for PtrList/UPtrList - this would be too fragile.
- add swap DynamicField with DynamicList
BUG: fixed Dynamic{Field,List} setCapacity corner case
- for the case when the newly requested capacity coincides with the
current addressable size, the resize of the underlying list would have
been bypassed - ie, the real capacity was not actually changed.
- remove (unused) PtrDynList setCapacity method as too fragile
