[Info-vax] DEC Basic and dynamic memory ?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-01-30, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 1/30/2022 7:03 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>                            There's also the required copying of the
>> current data every time you grow the tree.
>
> That is common practice in many languages for dynamic
> sized data structures needing linear backing.
>

But elsewhere you have the choice of whether to use something
like a Vector or if you need to build a tree structure yourself.

Specifying the growth increment of a linear structure is also
a tradeoff but you are not forced to use a linear structure if
you can build real trees and that's a better choice.

Simon.

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