Vote for std.process

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Friday, 12 April 2013 at 08:26:48 UTC, Manu wrote:
> Again, I'm just suggesting possibilities, and trying to 
> illustrate that
> it's a STANDARD library, you can never predict where users will 
> want to use
> it.

So you are talking about an imaginary system where memory 
allocation is expensive but process creation is cheap.

It's impossible to design and optimize software for some 
intangible goals. None of the systems that D targets, or aims to 
target, meet that criteria.

> Can you perhaps quantify how any of those things would be 
> reduced by
> addressing at least the details I highlight?
> I'm basically advocating making a habit of using the stack 
> where possible.
> It's not exactly hard, or cryptic.

Yes. However, I suggest the following instead:

Please rewrite some part of std.process with performance in mind, 
and post it here for review. This way, we can analyze the 
benefits and drawbacks based on a concrete example, instead of 
vapor and hot air.