Request for comments: std.d.lexer

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-01-28 09:51, Johannes Pfau wrote:

> This sounds like a valid use case for buffered ranges (which we don't
> have yet, afaik). When used correctly you could avoid the appender
> completely. Instead slice the input buffer and copy it if necessary.
> (If the complete file is kept in memory copying could also be
> avoided)

If think slicing the buffer will force the whole buffer to remain in 
memory and not be collected by the GC. If one keeps the whole buffer in 
memory anyway this won't be a problem.

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/Jacob Carlborg