[webkit-dev] size_t vs unsigned in WTF::Vector API ?

[Filip Pizlo]

If there was a benefit, then the following approach would make sense to me:

- Have both Vector and SmallVector.  SmallVector will use unsigned internally.

- Use SmallVector in the places where sizeof(Vector) matters.  This would take some effort but I think that we have the tools that would be needed to be systematic about it.

- Both Vector and SmallVector will have an API based on size_t.  SmallVector will do truncation checks in all of the places.

-Filip


> On Nov 20, 2014, at 11:32 AM, Geoffrey Garen <ggaren at apple.com> wrote:
> 
>> I wonder what the downsides are to this approach.  Footprint of Vector?
> 
> It looks like the original change was motivated by shrinking Vector:
> 
> 	https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97268 <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97268>
> 
> Sadly, it didn’t include any data on the observed benefit :(.
> 
> Geoff

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