toString refactor in druntime

[David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 1 November 2014 at 12:31:15 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> It is not the same thing as ref/out buffer argument. We have 
> been running ping-pong comments about it for a several times 
> now. All std.internal.scopebuffer does is reducing heap 
> allocation count at cost of stack consumption (and switching to 
> raw malloc for heap) - it does not change big-O estimate of 
> heap allocations unless it is used as a buffer argument - at 
> which point it is no better than plain array.

Agreed. Its API also has severe safety problems.

David