std.container.BinaryHeap + refCounted = WTF???

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:09:11 -0500, dsimcha <dsimcha at yahoo.com> wrote:

> == Quote from Steven Schveighoffer (schveiguy at yahoo.com)'s article
>> The issue is that if you append to such an array and it adds more pages  
>> in
>> place, the block length location will move.  Since each thread caches  
>> its
>> own copy of the block info, one will be wrong and look at array data
>> thinking it's a length field.
>> Even if you surround the appends with a lock, it will still cause  
>> problems
>> because of the cache.  I'm not sure there's any way to reliably append  
>> to
>> such data from multiple threads.
>> -Steve
>
> Would assumeSafeAppend() do the trick?
>

No, that does not affect your cache.  I probably should add a function to  
append without using the cache.

-Steve