Optimize Allocator::grow and Allocator::shrink for the last allocation in ngx_pool_t. #169
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Does ngx_pool_t do non-noop frees if done in LIFO order? If so, then it would also make sense for it to support in-place reallocs for the last allocation, and override the provided default methods for Allocator::grow and Allocator::shrink here as well.
Allowing the last allocation to grow in-place, even in bump allocators, is particularly nice when building Vecs of an unknown number of elements and which end up resizing and growing their underlying storage.
Originally posted by @fitzgen in #164 (comment)
The approach has been used in ngx_array_push since nginx 0.1, and the underlying structures are quite stable. The optimization would be quite beneficial for building arrays and strings on pool.