TempAlloc: an unusual request

bearophile bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Sun Jun 19 17:21:33 PDT 2011


Andrei:

> dsimcha:
> > My other concern is that giving RegionAllocator reference semantics
> > would, IIUC, require an allocation to allocate a RegionAllocator. Since
> > TempAlloc is designed to avoid global GC locks/world stopping like the
> > plauge, this is obviously bad.
> 
> I was actually glad of that particular outcome...

I suggest to think about it three times before giving FrameAlloc reference semantics. I'd even like a variant of Appender without reference semantics.

Bye,
bearophile


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