FYI - mo' work on std.allocator

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/5/14, 9:57 AM, Marco Leise wrote:
> That sounds like a more complicated topic than anything I had
> in mind. I think a »std.virtualmemory« module should already
> implement all the primitives in a portable form, so we don't
> have to do that again for the next use case. Since
> cross-platform code is always hard to get right, it could also
> avoid latent bugs.
> That module would also offer functionality to get the page
> size and allocation granularity and wrappers for common needs
> like getting n KiB of writable memory. Management however
> (i.e. RAII structs) would not be part of it.
> It sounds like not too much work with great benefit for a
> systems programming language.

I think adding portable primitives to 
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_mmfile.html (plus better yet refactoring its 
existing code to use them) would be awesome and wouldn't need a DIP. -- 
Andrei