Phobos Wish List/Next in Review Queue?
Martin Nowak
dawg at dawgfoto.de
Wed Nov 23 07:40:41 PST 2011
> Yeah, this is problematic. In voting against my allocator proposal,
> Andrei mentioned that he wanted the allocators to be well-tested in the
> container API first. This means either we have a circular dependency or
> allocators and containers need to be co-developed. Co-developing them
> is problematic. If one person does containers and another allocators,
> the project might be overwhelmed by communication overhead. If the same
> person does both, then this is asking a pretty lot for a hobby project.
>
There was the idea of a std.experimental (or stdexp) package floating
around some time ago.
If I remember correctly it was found to be a useful addition.
Why not adding the current allocator interface with say a GC-only
implementation there
so that container development can start off and provide the necessary
feedback.
martin
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