dynamic array .length vs .reserve - what's the difference?
Steven Schveighoffer
schveiguy at gmail.com
Sat Aug 1 16:04:01 UTC 2020
On 7/31/20 12:32 PM, wjoe wrote:
> On Friday, 31 July 2020 at 04:28:57 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>> Another option, which is curiously said to be more performant in
>> memory allocation than native arrays, is std.array.Appender. I've used
>> function-local static Appenders to cut down on memory allocation. Here
>> is an uncompiled pseudo code:
>>
>> [...]
>
> This looks like an even better way to do it.
>
> Thanks, Ali :)
Just FYI, the reason this is faster is because there is no need to go
through the opaque calls into druntime to figure out if
appending-in-place is possible. The reserved length is stored directly
in the struct.
-Steve
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