Array start index

[Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-learn]

Pressed send too soon, before considering your GC question.

On 02/07/2017 02:11 AM, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:

 > We do not need to take measures against the GC?

Of course we have to and the struct that I wrote is illegal because it 
is self-referencing through the _ptr member. (D has the right to move 
structs around, making my _ptr potentially pointing to an illegal address.)

This optimization cannot work if the array is a static array inside the 
same struct. It would work with a dynamic array but then it would 
probably be slower than applying the *(ptr+index) technique.

Ali