List of Phobos functions that allocate memory?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 2/8/14, 9:00 PM, Marco Leise wrote:
> Am Sat, 08 Feb 2014 14:01:12 -0800
> schrieb Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com>:
>
>> On 2/7/2014 8:40 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>>> Meh. If exceptions are such a liability we'd better make them (much) faster.
>>
>> They can be made faster by slowing down non-exception code.
>>
>> This has been debated at length in the C++ community, and the generally accepted
>> answer is that non-exception code performance is preferred and exception
>> performance is thrown under the bus in order to achieve it.
>>
>> I think it's quite a reasonable conclusion.
>
> https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/black-or-white
>
> The reasons for slow exceptions in D could be the generation
> of stack trace strings or the garbage collector instead of
> inherent trade offs to keep the successful code path fast.

This threads is about memory allocation, not exceptions being slow.

> And static allocation isn't an exactly appealing option...
>
>    throw staticException ? staticException : (staticException =
>    new SomethingException("Don't do this at home kids!"));
>

Function calls could do that.


Andrei