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Capacity and Growth

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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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