My experience making an on-disk merge sort using ranges

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 2/26/13 10:31 PM, Chris Cain wrote:
> After reading bearophile's post, I realized I neglected to mention I was
> using 2.062.
>
> On Wednesday, 27 February 2013 at 03:16:39 UTC, bearophile wrote:
>>
>> With the latest compiler this compiles to me
>> ...
>
> Interesting. map!text() compiles but it crashes. It's worth noting that
> map!text().cached() works without crashing on my end.
>
> That said, it's not the first time I've seen Object Violation while
> working on this problem. Although, I was previously certain the times it
> was failing with that was my fault (because I was trying to implement a
> version of a wrapper where I mistakenly took the address of the value
> type MapResult without thinking that it meant I was taking the address
> of the stack ... whoops).
>
> I wonder why using

In all likelihood these are manifestations of simple bugs. Please submit 
all cases that should work but are failing (in the same bug report) and 
we'll get them fixed.

Thanks for your work! nWayUnion is a pretty darn slick algorithm.


Andrei