RFR: 8247755: Leaner and more versatile GrowableArray classes

[Kim Barrett]

> On Jun 18, 2020, at 5:20 PM, Stefan Karlsson <stefan.karlsson at oracle.com> wrote:
> On 2020-06-18 21:39, coleen.phillimore at oracle.com wrote:
>> So all the functions in this class need to be able to call grow(), with allocator 'S' right?
> 
> Yes.
> 
>>   Can template parameter 'S' be "ALLOC" so it's easy to find?
> 
> I chose the name S to match that the class that S represents *must* be a subclass. I can rename it to ALLOC, but then the name would loose that connection. I'd like to here more opinions before changing this.

“S” doesn’t say a whole lot.

A convention I’ve seen is to name such a CRTP template parameter “Derived”.

Though I’m not sure CRTP is the way to go here; I’m still working on reviewing though, so
possibly more on that later.