std.allocator issues

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On Saturday, 20 February 2016 at 02:21:00 UTC, Steven 
Schveighoffer wrote:
> I'm trying to use the std.experimental.allocator API more in my 
> new io library, and I'm having a few stumbling points:
>
> 1. GCAllocator only allocates void, which is marked as 
> containing pointers. This is no good for a stream buffer, and 
> can severely harm performance.

This is pretty bad, GCAllocator should ideally be able to 
optionally take type information when allocating and forward it 
to the GC.
GC.malloc interface can take a typeinfo object, btw