Handling different types gracefully

[Roderick Gibson]

On Tuesday, 2 July 2013 at 06:54:58 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Roderick Gibson:
>
>> Variant is a possiblity. How is the performance with large 
>> containers of these, since these structures will likely hold 
>> the majority of the data in the game?
>
> You probably have to benchmark yourself. (But I have suggested 
> an Algebraic).
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

I should know the types at compile time, so I will be using it 
most likely, but reading the docs it looks like Algebraic is 
built on top of the same structure as Variant. Is there any 
difference in implementation?