TempAlloc: an unusual request

[dsimcha]

On 6/18/2011 10:00 AM, 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

Sorry for the late reply.  I was on a camping trip without internet 
access this weekend.  This seems perfectly reasonable to me, and I'd 
love to work on a general allocator interface and fit TempAlloc to it.