Running out of memory ctfe 16GB

[Jethro via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 7 April 2017 at 21:02:33 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> Nierjerson wrote:
>
>> How to implement trick is this and are you 100% sure it works?
>>
>> e.g.,
>>
>> char[] x;
>>
>> x.length = 65536;
>> x.length = 0;
>
> this won't work. the moment you did `.length = 0;`, you are 
> returned to point zero.
>
> what you have to do is to maintain "shadow length" yourself, 
> like this:
>
> 	x.length = 65536;
> 	size_t xpos = 0;
> 	
> 	void put (const(char)[] s...) {
> 		foreach (immutable char ch; s) {
> 			if (xpos == x.length) x.length += 65536; // or anything
> 			x[xpos++] = ch;
> 		}
> 	}

thanks, I'll try it... seems like it is basically appender though?