TempAlloc: an unusual request

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Sat Jun 18 07:19:57 PDT 2011


On 18/06/11 11:30 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I'd like to kindly request the author, the review manager, and the
> community that TempAlloc skips this round of reviews without inclusion
> in Phobos, to be reviewed again later.
>
> The design of TempAlloc is plenty adequate for its charter, but the
> charter itself is too narrow. I'd like to design together with David a
> more general allocator interface in which TempAlloc would be a player.
> That requires massive changes to the interface, but relatively small
> changes to the implementation.
>
> If we don't do this, TempAlloc would be an outlier once we have
> allocator, and would need to be adapted in order to mix and match with
> other allocation strategies.
>
> Please let me know if that's a possibility and I'll get back with details.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei

Request granted (community member vote)



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