Vision document for H1 2017

[Nick Treleaven via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 13 January 2017 at 12:53:16 UTC, Nick Treleaven wrote:
> On Friday, 13 January 2017 at 05:33:07 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
>> On that topic, D's arrays would play nicer with both 
>> refcounting *and* modern garbage collectors if they were 
>> structured as base, offset, length instead of start, length.
>
> That might be slower sometimes as slices wouldn't fit in two 
> registers then.

Although for custom data structures, offset & length could often 
share one register. Then the magic looking up of the base address 
can be avoided, saving time.