Paralysis of analysis

[Craig Black]

"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote in message 
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> On Tuesday, December 14, 2010 16:35:34 Craig Black wrote:
>> > What say you?
>>
>> I feel like the odd man out here since my perspective is so different.  I
>> use custom container classes even in C++, partly because I can usually 
>> get
>> better performance that way, and because I can customize the the 
>> container
>> however I like.  So I will probably be doing my own containers if/when I
>> use D.
>>
>> Beyond that, my own personal preferences seem so different that I 
>> hesitate
>> to mention them.  I use dynamic arrays by far the most out of all 
>> container
>> classes.  I use them so much that I cringe at the thought of allocating
>> them on the GC heap.  My code is very high performance and I would like 
>> to
>> keep it that way.
>>
>> Also, my usage of arrays is such that most of them are empty, so it is
>> important to me that the empty arrays are stored efficiently.  Using my
>> custom container class, an empty array does not require a heap 
>> allocation,
>> and only requires a single pointer to be allocated.
>>
>> Not sure if these requirements are important to anyone else, but I don't
>> mind making my own custom containers if I need to.
>
> Dynamic arrays are already on the GC heap...
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Using built-in D arrays, yes.  Using a templated struct, they don't have to 
be.   C++ std::vector works just fine without GC.  The same can be done in 
D.