Progress on std.container

[Matthias Walter]

On 07/17/2012 12:41 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 7/16/12 4:19 AM, Matthias Walter wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to know who is currently working on std.container - at some
>> point I read that Andrei works on user-controlled allocation and then
>> the issues of container structures will be addressed. Unforntunately, at
>> the moment std.container.Array is unusable for me because of missing
>> const Range (8248) and impossible arrays of arrays (6153).
>>
>> Is there a way to see how far this development is? Can one contribute
>> somehow? I would offer to contribute but only on a basis where the
>> general design is fixed (e.g. there is a reference implementation for a
>> certain container) to add other missing containers.
> 
> I'm the bottleneck for that. My list of actual work (aside from my
> duties as phobos/druntime/tools/dlang.org curator) is:
> 
> 1. Put std.benchmark through the review process
> 
> 2. Define allocators
> 
> 3. Integrate allocators with std.container
> 
> If you have fixes for std.container that are faraway from allocation
> issues, I think it's safe to propose them as pull requests. I assume the
> advent of allocators will be a uniform additive changes for all containers.

That's good news - despite the fact the you have loads of work. I will
probably work on these things.

Thank you!