[dmd-internals] AssociativeArray in druntime should go before the next release

[Steve Schveighoffer]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Martin Nowak <dawg at dawgfoto.de>

> <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>>  I just don't want to move from the current method to something that 
> unnecessarily heap-allocates, we already have enough of that.
>> 
> What is allocating?
> Are you referring to this http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2356?

Yes.  Except this would be yet another case to add.

What I am saying is, if we go with the lowering of:

[a:b, c:d] => AALiteral([a,c], [b,d]);

I would like to have this not needlessly allocate the arrays [a, c] and [b, d] on the heap, since those arrays will be unused after that call.  To use the heap would be a step backwards, since the current AA literal code does not use it.

-Steve