Tracing API?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/22/13 5:50 AM, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
> In my opinion we should first decide on the type of collector to be
> implemented and then implement the subsystems needed by that collector,
> in a way that optimally serves that collector. If someone wants to
> implement another type of collector, they will have to work with whats
> there. In my opinion doing a to generalized solution will lead to bad
> performance and unneccessary issues when implementing the reference
> collector.

Agreed. What worked for std.allocator was to set out to implement a 
number of classic allocation tropes and seek out the smallest API that 
would do. Of course that means figuring what tropes are important and 
how to best implement them. As they say, there's no substitute for 
expertise :o).

Andrei