std.allocator ready for some abuse

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Thu Oct 31 19:44:01 PDT 2013


On 10/31/13 7:26 PM, safety0ff wrote:
> I noticed that the GCAllocator provides no way of controlling the memory
> block attributes (http://dlang.org/phobos/core_memory.html#.GC.BlkAttr
> ,) all allocations get the default (no attributes.) This is a leaky
> abstraction, a data structure or composed allocators may desire to
> control the attributes to reduce GC pressure.

These attributes seem to be informed by the types stored, which would be 
above the charter of untyped allocator.

Andrei


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