Make AVG_PART_LENGTH a power of 2

I seem to recall that in general, it's best to request an allocation
with a size that's a power of 2. The low estimate of 5 was probably a
little too low as well.
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Noah Lev
2022-01-10 12:24:20 -08:00
parent 8f59eb6da0
commit cef250d90b
+10 -3
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@@ -105,10 +105,17 @@ fn with_capacity_bytes(count: usize) -> Self {
/// This is just a guess at the average length of a URL part,
/// used for [`String::with_capacity`] calls in the [`FromIterator`]
/// and [`Extend`] impls.
/// and [`Extend`] impls, and for [estimating item path lengths].
///
/// This is intentionally on the lower end to avoid overallocating.
const AVG_PART_LENGTH: usize = 5;
/// The value `8` was chosen for two main reasons:
///
/// * It seems like a good guess for the average part length.
/// * jemalloc's size classes are all multiples of eight,
/// which means that the amount of memory it allocates will often match
/// the amount requested, avoiding wasted bytes.
///
/// [estimating item path lengths]: estimate_item_path_byte_length
const AVG_PART_LENGTH: usize = 8;
/// Estimate the number of bytes in an item's path, based on how many segments it has.
///