Reduce memory footprint when handling large hosts sets #207
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This substantially improves handling of large sets of hosts. ie. With a "10.0.0.0/8" hosts string, memory footprint is reduced from 1.33GB to 0.9GB. Other operations times such as creation and shuffling are also slightly faster.
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Use a dynamic array for gvm_hosts instead of doubly-linked lists.
This substantially improves handling of large sets of hosts.
ie. With a "10.0.0.0/8" hosts string, memory footprint is reduced from
1.33GB to 0.9GB. Other operations times such as creation and shuffling
are also slightly faster.