[Mono-dev] Should we replace MemoryStream?

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> Are you talking about System.IO.MemoryStream?
> Then imho this would be a problematic move.
> Most people are used to new MemoryStream (someByteArray) being O(0) time,
> but with ChunkedStream would be O(n). In fact in those cases ChunkedStream
> would need twice the memory because it would still need to retain the
> original byte array (e.g. for GetBuffer).

I dont think it would be O(n), there is a dereference only.

> 
> Happy hacking
> Andreas
> 
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> Icaza
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> 
> Hello folks,
> 
>     I just blogged about a memory fragmentation issue here:
> 
> 	http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2009/Nov-09.html
> 
>     And I am wondering: since MemoryStream is one of these sources of
> problems, we could replace this implementation with MindTouch's
> ChunkedStream.
> 
> Miguel.
> 
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