[GSOC] Persistent Data Structures detailed information

[Jay]

On Monday, 8 April 2019 at 12:59:44 UTC, Stefanos Baziotis wrote:
> On Monday, 8 April 2019 at 11:32:01 UTC, Jay wrote:
>> Hey Stefanos, firstly thanks a lot for replying and helping 
>> out even though you are submitting a proposal for the same 
>> project :-p.
>
> It's a team sport :)
>
>>
>> It hadn't even come to my notice that D does not have a 
>> malloc-like function for dynamic address generation.
> Do you mean dynamic memory allocation?
>
>> All I can think of as of now is interfacing c++ library in 
>> creating the data structure, but as it won't be the best 
>> solution the only option we have is implementing a <stdlib.h> 
>> like library. Would love to hear your any other ideas on the 
>> same.
>
> Roughly this is what I meant with the creation of a 
> strongly-typed allocator, but not
> a C++ one, rather a D one. There's a great discussion of this 
> here [1]
> which is about another GSoC idea. Even then though, it still 
> doesn't
> seem like a very good plan to me.
>
> [1] 
> https://forum.dlang.org/thread/pvhacqomqgnhmqienfpi@forum.dlang.org
Thanks a ton, I will include the insights you gave me in the 
proposal.

All the best for both the projects. :)