std.allocator needs your help

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 9/24/13 9:12 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Am 24.09.2013 17:29, schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu:
>> On 9/23/13 11:32 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>> On 2013-09-23 19:53, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think this is debatable. For one, languages such as Java and C++
>>>> still
>>>> have built-in "new" but quite ubiquitously unrecommend their usage in
>>>> user code. Far as I can tell that's been a successful campaign.
>>>
>>> Since when is it _not_ recommended to use "new" in Java?
>>
>> http://goo.gl/KVmAom
>>
>>
>> Andrei
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>>
>
> The top results are from around 2002, when most JVMs still had basic GC
> implementations and did not perform escape analysis.

I'm having in mind the polymorphism/flexibility argument. I'd forgotten 
about the efficiency argument.

Andrei