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In some cases, 2x or 4x is worth the risk. Imagine having a warehouse-scale computer where you can use 50,000 CPUs instead of 200,000.

I'm just making it up as I go along, it's not the prettiest thing. What would you do, in C?

True, but that can be overcome by another function that just gives you an address to put a new item. You would say, for example: *(int *)vector_expand(v) = 2;

In this case, I'm not storing void pointers in the data structure, but I'm using the void pointer as a direct address into "elements". The memory layout is just a sequence of items…

The RAII benefits are definitely there and STL containers are pretty awesome, but you can still create generic containers in C by using void pointers. For example, a simple vector …