Should we add another SmallArray to DMD?

[Guillaume Chatelet via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 7 July 2016 at 07:56:44 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
> On Thursday, 7 July 2016 at 06:39:19 UTC, Guillaume Chatelet 
> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 5 July 2016 at 19:41:18 UTC, Guillaume Chatelet 
>> wrote:
>>> DMD currently provides the Array type:
>>> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/src/root/array.d
>>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> Walter, Daniel, Thoughts?
>
> I guess a few number of the perf difference this can make would 
> be helpful.

It's not so much about performance gain (although it wouldn't 
hurt).

It's more about codebase sanity: idiomatic D, documentation, 
tests. I think it's currently hard to contribute to DMD. Sure it 
improved a lot with the migration to D but it still bears the 
marks of the past.