RFC on range design for D2

[Sean Kelly]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> bearophile wrote:
>> bearophile:
>>> (Your code doesn't work (on D1) if T is a static array,
>>
>> Sorry, ignore what I have written, I'm a little nervous...
> 
> I think I've unnecessarily overstated my case, which has put both of us 
> in defensive.
> 
> You are very right that tests on D1 and D2 are not comparable. And 
> Walter has at one point made crucial changes in the allocator at my 
> behest. Specifically, he introduced in-place growth whenever possible 
> and added the expand() primitive to the gc. These are present in D2 but 
> I don't know whether and when he has regressed those to D1. (And btw why 
> wouldn't you try it :o).)

For the record, in-place growth has been in D1 for as long as it's been 
in D2.


Sean