I made an array of structs to represent map data that gets drawn; however I didn't double check it till it was too late: when I load in a new map I get either an "out of memory exception" (if i try to make a new array struct first) or I get a screwed up map that would require a lot of recodeing to get it to work right (if i just initialize a big map first)... maybe too much.
So now I'm wondering if there's a safe way to reallocate the array of structs since the data when I do it is thrown away anyway (i.e. I dont need to copy the data, just resize the array and reset new data from the file).
Is this possible safely? Or should I just look to use something else, like an arraylist or list? What I need here is basically indexing speed and reading speed more then anything.