why allocators are not discussed here

Dicebot public at dicebot.lv
Wed Jun 26 14:05:41 PDT 2013


On Wednesday, 26 June 2013 at 21:00:54 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky 
wrote:
> Needless to say that custom run-time for the first 2 categories 
> is required anyway so just hack the druntime. It would be nice 
> to have hooks readily available (and documented?) to do so but 
> hardly beyond that.

It is an API issue. Hacking druntime is, unfortunately, 
inevitable but keeping ability to swap those two with no code 
changes simplifies development process and makes less tempting 
too forget about this use case when doing std lib / runtime stuff 
- it has been a second-class citizen for rather long time.


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