[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 224726] Make container naming a bit more consistent

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224726

--- Comment #11 from Sam Weinig <sam at webkit.org> ---
(In reply to Darin Adler from comment #5)
> I like "Compact" a lot, by the way.
> 
> Not sure that "Buffer" to me says "non-resizable vector".

(In reply to Sam Weinig from comment #10)
> (In reply to Darin Adler from comment #3)
> > (In reply to Sam Weinig from comment #2)
> > > RefCountedArray -> CompactRefCountedBuffer
> > > FixedVector -> CompactBuffer
> > 
> > Main thing that is lost here is the following:
> > 
> > "He programmer, you are using a Vector, but you never need to resize it, so
> > you should instead use a FixedVector, which can be used the same way but is
> > always more memory efficient."
> > 
> > I don’t think CompactBuffer works very well in that sentence, but I am not
> > sure. Maybe we another goal is to help people think of Vector -> FixedVector
> > in a way analogous to StringBuilder -> String.
> 
> I like that argument. Perhaps then:
> 
> RefCountedArray -> RefCountedFixedVector
> FixedVector -> FixedVector

Or rather,

RefCountedArray -> CompactRefCountedFixedVector
FixedVector -> CompactFixedVector

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