An important pull request: accessing shared affix for immutable data

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 14 February 2016 at 01:27:40 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 2/13/16 5:01 PM, deadalnix wrote:
>> What about storing the metadata at an address that is 
>> computable from
>> from the object's address, while not being contiguous with the 
>> object
>> allocated ? Is substracting a constant really the only option 
>> here ?
>> (hint, it is not)
>
> I'd say, you have at your disposal a flexible allocator 
> framework so a simple way to go about it would be to implement 
> new allocators that take various options about storing 
> metadata. -- Andrei

I have nothing against this as some sort of optin allocation 
scheme. But my understanding was that it is desirable to wire RC 
into this.