[dmd-internals] Oldest five bugs

Andrei Alexandrescu andrei at erdani.com
Wed Jan 18 15:24:03 PST 2012


On 1/18/12 4:53 PM, David Simcha wrote:
> Lastly, design issues tend to require intimate familiarity with use
> cases.  I would have no problem implementing a container library (it's
> just basic data structures) but I don't feel qualified to do the
> high-level design here because I don't understand all the use cases that
> make it a non-trivial problem.  Probably very few people have diverse
> enough experience to have a deep understanding of the tradeoffs involved.

BTW I think I finally reached a breakthrough with an allocator design. 
It's... different than I thought it would be, and than extant designs. 
The matter now is finding the time to document and implement it.


Andrei



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