phobos alt.

[Caligo]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com>wrote:

> On Monday, October 31, 2011 16:48 bls wrote:
> > On 10/31/2011 04:11 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > > That's perfectly reasonable. The fact that std.container is so
> incomplete
> > > is a _huge_ problem for Phobos. It needs to be filled out and its API
> > > fully ironed out. Overall, it looks solid, but it just doesn't have
> > > enough actual usage at this point to really verify that because of the
> > > lack of containers. std.container_will_ be completed, so this really
> > > shouldn't be a long term concern, but in the short term, I agree that
> > > it's a definite problem.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > I've tried to contact Steven via email in order to stress-test my
> > skiplist implementation in dcollections.
> >
> > (I am not obsessed regarding skiplists, but all measurements I have seen
> > so far are showing that in case of massive appending the skiplist
> > algorithm wins).. makes sense for std.database (orm/unitofwork)
> >
> > Nevertheless, what I don't understand is : What has to be ironed out
> > before giving std.collections a go ?, What's the show-stopper? The only
> > thing I can vaguely imagine is streaming .. but dunno.
>
> std.collections? Do you mean std.container? Andrei wants the custom
> allocators
> sorted out before we implement a bunch of containers that we'd then have to
> change. As it is, Array and SList are supposed to be turned into final
> classes
> rather than reference-counted structs, and not even that has happened yet.
> So,
> it seems like std.container has effectively stagnated while waiting for the
> custom allocator stuff to be worked out. However, supposedly Andrei is
> going
> to start messing around with the recently reviewed region allocator stuff
> with
> std.container sometime soon in order to iron it out a bit more, but with
> how
> busy he is, I don't know where that stands.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
>

How long before custom allocator stuff is complete?  6 months? a year?
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