dmd 1.057 and 2.041 release

Philippe Sigaud philippe.sigaud at gmail.com
Tue Mar 9 12:28:43 PST 2010


On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:29, grauzone <none at example.net> wrote:

> Many of these names (including shrinkToFit) suggest that memory usage is
> reduced by freeing the left over memory after the array. This is not true:
> the function just enables stomping of the memory past the slice passed to
> the function.
>
> It's a very specialized and dangerous function (but still may be critical
> for good performance), and maybe it should rather have a more
> convoluted/long name than a simple one.
>

enableStomping?
recycle?

Anyway IANANES (I'm not a native English speaker), so I'll let Steven
decide.


   Philippe
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