Tango vs Phobos

[Sean Kelly]

Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
>> Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>>>
>>> But does delegate usage cause that much erroneous outer variable heap 
>>> allocation? (by erroneous, I mean in situations were it would not be 
>>> necessary)
>>
>>  From what I've been told, it does.  But I haven't personally tested D 
>> 2.0 enough to say.
>>
> 
> Is there any bug report or code sample of such situation? I recall you 
> mentioning this problem before, but I haven't seen any concrete example 
> so far. (not saying there isn't ;) )
> 
>>> Or is the problem here that you are afraid that the developer might 
>>> make a mistake were he would create a delegate that would capture an 
>>> outer variable (and thus heap allocate it), but the developer would 
>>> not notice it?
>>
>> No.  My issue is simply with performance guarantees.
>>
> 
> Guarentees by the D spec itself?

No, guarantees by Tango.  Like how the STL provides "big O" guarantees 
for its algorithms.


Sean