BigInt -- a challenge for std.allocator

[Dmitry Olshansky]

30-Oct-2013 01:59, Joseph Rushton Wakeling пишет:
> On 29/10/13 15:58, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>> Can't it use ref-counted COW? Then since there is only 1 reference to the
>> original block it may mutate it in-place else it creates new chunk
>> with refs=1
>> and decrements the original count. Maybe I'm missing something but it
>> shouldn't
>> be that hard.
>
> Yes, that's pretty much what I was thinking of.  The question is how to
> implement it in terms of std.allocator -- or is that the wrong base to
> build ref=counted memory upon?
>

Like others said - just use allocator.alloc/allocator.free instead of 
malloc/free nothing stellar.

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Dmitry Olshansky