[phobos] phobos commit, revision 1740

Sean Kelly sean at invisibleduck.org
Thu Jul 8 23:28:33 PDT 2010


On Jul 8, 2010, at 10:25 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

>> Also added specialization of Array for bool that stores
>> one bit per element.
> 
> _Please_ tell me that's optional in some manner. I don't know _anyone_ who uses 
> vector<bool> in C++ _precisely_ because of this optimization. 

Looks like this optimization is largely invisible to the user, unlike vector<bool>, and intended largely for space saving.  If you want a plain old BitArray there's one in std.bitmanip.


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