Am Sat, 7 Dec 2013 13:27:07 -0500
schrieb Michel Fortin <michel.fortin@michelf.ca>:

> […] The way to fix that with an output range would be to have have a "reserve" function telling the range "prepare yourself to receive that much data", which may or may not do something depending on the kind of output range it is.

This could even preallocate blocks on a filesystem for file
record based output ranges. (In order to avoid
file fragmentation on mechanical disks.)

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Marco