An important pull request: accessing shared affix for immutable data

[Dicebot via Digitalmars-d]

On 02/13/2016 04:34 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 02/12/2016 08:42 PM, Dicebot wrote:
>> So you
>> envision this kind of metadata support to be only available via specific
>> type of allocator, AffixAllocator, and not being supported by most of
>> them?
> 
> That is correct. You want metadata, you put an AffixAllocator together.
> -- Andrei

Aha, I think this kills most of my here-and-now concerns if it is only
planned as opt-in allocator extension. Better to do benchmarking of
various approaches to layout when there is rcstring prototype in that case.

Thanks!