Lists are measured in elements not bytes.
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\item The machinery for growing and shrinking lists was optimized
- for speed and for space efficiency. Small lists (under six bytes)
- never over-allocate by more than one byte. Large lists do not
+ for speed and for space efficiency. Small lists (under six elements)
+ never over-allocate by more than one element. Large lists do not
over-allocate by more than 1/8th. Appending and popping from lists
now runs faster due to more efficient code paths and less frequent
use of the underlying system realloc(). List comprehensions also