# 185. MOVE_ALLOC may be faster than RESHAPE or allocation on assignment to resize an array.
topic: {ref}`allocation`
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Another way to grow an array is
x = reshape(x,[size(x)+size(new)],pad=new)
The code compares the speeds of move_alloc, reshape, and allocation on assignment in growing an array. Move_alloc was fastest for gfortran, but this is platform-dependent.
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