TempAlloc: an unusual request

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 6/19/11 4:53 PM, dsimcha wrote:
> 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.

Great, thanks. Destroy the API I posted preemptively.

Andrei