Old problem with performance

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Rainer Deyke wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> C++ ctors won't do the right thing if you use pointers, which is the
>> moral equivalent of using T[] inside MathematicalVector. If you refer to
>> std::vector instead, then that's a carefully-defined type that does have
>> the right copy constructor defined.
> 
> So where's the D equivalent of std::vector?  Phobos has nothing.

It will.

> I was under the impression that native arrays were intended to be used
> directly in D, something I rarely do in C++.  Certainly neither of the
> standard libraries has any hesitation about passing unadorned dynamic
> arrays around.

Phobos2 plans to consistently consider T[] a range, not a full-fledged 
array. A range corresponds to a pair of iterators in STL.


Andrei