Memory allocation purity

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/15/14, 6:28 AM, Dicebot wrote:
> This is not true. Because of such code you can't ever automatically
> memoize strongly pure function results by compiler. A very practical
> concern.

I think code that doesn't return pointers should be memoizable. Playing 
tricks with pointer comparisons would be appropriately penalized. -- Andrei