[Issue 4763] New: Few possible changes on std.stdio.File

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           Summary: Few possible changes on std.stdio.File
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: Phobos
        AssignedTo: nobody at puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: bearophile_hugs at eml.cc


--- Comment #0 from bearophile_hugs at eml.cc 2010-08-29 16:57:23 PDT ---
This is not a bug report, it's a list of three possible small changes to the
code/API of std.stdio.File.

Here Andrei says that the std.stdio.File.open() method is useful for
performance:
http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=116278

Indeed inside File.this() there is an allocation, that open() may sometimes
save if File.Impl.refs is 1. But open() contains:

auto another = File(name, stdioOpenmode);

That calls File.this(), so at a first sight it seems that open() performs the
allocation anyway (if I am wrong then please ignore this).


Generally it's positive to minimize APIs. You may write:

auto f = File(...)
f = File(...)

Instead of:

auto f = File(...)
f.open(...)

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According to D specs on the site, inner structs contain an extra scope pointer,
so this may be better:

private static struct Impl {

See also bug 4087

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Given the presence of opAssign, I presume this code, inside open():

auto another = File(name, stdioOpenmode);
swap(this, another);

May be written just as:

this = File(name, stdioOpenmode);

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