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Diffstat (limited to 'src/corelib/text/qstring.cpp')
-rw-r--r-- | src/corelib/text/qstring.cpp | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/corelib/text/qstring.cpp b/src/corelib/text/qstring.cpp index 26d0a7acc8..d77ade226e 100644 --- a/src/corelib/text/qstring.cpp +++ b/src/corelib/text/qstring.cpp @@ -2525,7 +2525,11 @@ void QString::reallocGrowData(qsizetype alloc, Data::ArrayOptions options) if (!alloc) // expected to always allocate alloc = 1; - if (d->needsDetach()) { + // when we're requested to grow backwards, it means we're in prepend-like + // case. realloc() is good, but we might actually get more free space at the + // beginning with a call to allocateGrow, so prefer that instead + const bool preferAllocateGrow = options & Data::GrowsBackwards; + if (d->needsDetach() || preferAllocateGrow) { const auto newSize = qMin(alloc, d.size); DataPointer dd(DataPointer::allocateGrow(d, alloc, newSize, options)); dd->copyAppend(d.data(), d.data() + newSize); |