TempAlloc review starts now

dsimcha dsimcha at yahoo.com
Mon Jun 6 09:34:26 PDT 2011


== Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org)'s article
> On 6/5/11 5:25 PM, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
> > Code:
> >
> > https://github.com/dsimcha/TempAlloc/blob/master/tempalloc.d
> >
> > Docs:
> >
> > http://cis.jhu.edu/~dsimcha/d/phobos/core_tempalloc.html
> I'll get back with a real review, but before I forget, there is one
> thing that I also noticed in the proposal: TempAlloc is good to have but
> the marketing folks should be dialed down a bit. In the documentation
> TempAlloc lists two advantages compared to stack allocation and three
> advantages compared to heap allocation. There's no disadvantage,
> drawback, caveat, etc. listed at all. If we went by the documentation it
> would appear that TempAlloc is the be-all-end-all memory allocator to
> replace all others.
> Documentation must clarify when use of TempAlloc is favored and when
> other allocation methods should be chosen instead.
> Thanks,
> Andrei

Yeah, I'm really not sure how much marketing these proposals are supposed to have.
 One criticism of my std.parallelism proposal, IIRC, was too little marketing.


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