Dynamic arrays in D 1.0

[Bill Baxter]

Janice Caron wrote:
> On 11/05/2008, Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com> wrote:
>> std.algorithm's copy(), in its current form, will be less efficient because
>> it copies elements one-at-a-time in a loop.
> 
> That may be what the source code does, but it's the compiler's job to
> optimize. If it doesn't, I blame the compiler :-)
> 
> Also, memmove can't be used in CTFE.

Does std.algorithm.copy work in CTFE?

>> Anyway, the existence of such subtleties is why things like erase
>> should just be in the darn standard library so the problem only has
>> to be solved once.
> 
> I agree.
> 
> Although, that said, I don't think anyone's really considered it a
> "problem" before now.

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=473

--bb