Passing dynamic arrays

[Bruno Medeiros]

On 26/11/2010 22:12, spir wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 21:59:37 +0000
> Bruno Medeiros<brunodomedeiros+spam at com.gmail>  wrote:
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>> You could still do exponential capacity growth by manipulating the
>> length property, but yeah, that would create a host of complexity and
>> other issues (see my reply to Pelle). Yeah, my reasoning was really
>> broken. :'(
>
> What is the reason why D does not internally manages exp growth with a (private) capacity field? It's very common, and I thought the reason was precisely efficiency as it does not require reallocating so often, esp in cases such as feeding an array in a loop like in Andrei's example.)
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> Denis
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But D does exactly that, there is a capacity field (internal to the GC), 
and array growth is managed automatically, in an exponential way.

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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer