Multiple Dynamic Array

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Bill Baxter" <dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com> wrote in message 
news:empvht$9vk$1 at digitaldaemon.com...

> Jarrett, is that equivalent to doing the nested loop allocations above? Or 
> does it allocate one contiguous chunk and then set the pointers to point 
> inside of that?  Just curious, because if you're allocating a huge amount 
> of memory that way, then you don't always want it to be contiguous, 
> because there may not be a single block of memory available that's big 
> enough.

The new int[][][](64, 64, 64) syntax calls _d_newm, which is defined in 
dmd/src/phobos/internal/gc/gc.d.  It allocates several smaller blocks -- one 
for each dimension and for each element, and sets up the pointers/lengths 
for you.