List of Phobos functions that allocate memory?

[Brad Anderson]

On Thursday, 6 February 2014 at 21:38:03 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Thursday, 6 February 2014 at 19:08:40 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
> wrote:
>> On Thursday, 6 February 2014 at 18:52:21 UTC, fra wrote:
>>> Hey, wait a second. How do you throw without allocating?
>>
>> I think exceptions should be ok. You optimize the typical 
>> path, and exceptions are (by definition) an exceptional path. 
>> If they are also unacceptable, you could restrict yourself to 
>> nothrow functions. (Which can still throw Errors... but meh 
>> they are even *more* exceptional)
>
> Hardly so. Any exception allocation can trigger GC collection 
> cycle and Phobos does not provide any other way to handle data 
> errors. Any application that operates on some external user 
> input will be subject to DoS attack vector if it uses Phobos 
> directly.
>
> It was huge performance killer for vibe.d last time I have 
> checked, for example.

Personally I don't think bad user input qualifies as an 
exceptional case because it's expected to happen and the program 
is expected to handle it (and let the user know) when it does. 
That's just a matter of taste though.