Capacity and Growth
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What is Capacity and Growth?
Slice capacity determines when reallocation occurs during append operations. Go typically doubles capacity for smaller slices. Pre-allocate with make([]T, length, capacity) to optimize memory usage and minimize allocations in performance-critical code.
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Is this Capacity and Growth tutorial for beginners?
It is lesson 24 of 172 in the free Go roadmap, in stage 6, Slices. If you are new to Go, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.