Why 16Mib static array size limit?

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 17 August 2016 at 12:32:20 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> from my PoV, this kind of "optimizing" is overrated. i'm 
> absolutely unable to understand why should i obey orders from 
> machine instead of machine obeys my orders. if i want to go 
> wild with pointers, don't tell me that i can't, just compile my 
> code! C is literally ridden with this shit, and in the end it 
> is a freakin' pain to write correct C code (if it is possible 
> at all for something comlex).

Because making 99.9% of the code slower because of a fringe use 
case isn't sound engineering. Especially since there are already 
ways to do this is a way that makes the AA happy, for instance 
using unions.