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[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 7/17/2014 10:47 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Deferring the allocation point to the top level has the advantage of
> letting high-level user code decide what the allocation strategy should
> be, rather than percolating that decision down the call graph to every
> low-level function.

Exactly.

> Of course, it's not always possible to defer this, such as if you need
> to tell a container which allocator to use. But IMO this should be
> pushed up to higher-level code whenever possible.

Andrei's allocator scheme addresses this. It will also allow such decisions to 
be made at the high level.