Final by default?

[Dicebot]

On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 13:16:54 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "Steven Schveighoffer"  wrote in message 
> news:op.xcnu55j2eav7ka at stevens-macbook-pro.local...
>
>> > The worst breaking change in D2, by far, is the prevention 
>> > of array stomping.
>>
>> What is your use case(s), might I ask? Prevention of array 
>> stomping, I thought, had a net positive effect on performance, 
>> because it no longer has to lock the GC for thread-local 
>> appends.
>
> I would guess they're setting length to zero and appending to 
> re-use the memory.

Exactly. So far looks like upon transition to D2 almost all 
arrays used in our code will need to be replaced with some 
variation of Appender!T