Paralysis of analysis

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday, December 14, 2010 16:35:34 Craig Black wrote:
> > What say you?
> 
> I feel like the odd man out here since my perspective is so different.  I
> use custom container classes even in C++, partly because I can usually get
> better performance that way, and because I can customize the the container
> however I like.  So I will probably be doing my own containers if/when I
> use D.
> 
> Beyond that, my own personal preferences seem so different that I hesitate
> to mention them.  I use dynamic arrays by far the most out of all container
> classes.  I use them so much that I cringe at the thought of allocating
> them on the GC heap.  My code is very high performance and I would like to
> keep it that way.
> 
> Also, my usage of arrays is such that most of them are empty, so it is
> important to me that the empty arrays are stored efficiently.  Using my
> custom container class, an empty array does not require a heap allocation,
> and only requires a single pointer to be allocated.
> 
> Not sure if these requirements are important to anyone else, but I don't
> mind making my own custom containers if I need to.

Dynamic arrays are already on the GC heap...

- Jonathan M Davis