Small Buffer Optimization for string and friends

[Manu]

On Wed., 18 Apr. 2018, 8:36 pm Manu, <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed., 18 Apr. 2018, 1:00 pm Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d, <
> digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
>> On 4/8/2012 7:29 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> > On 4/8/12 1:33 AM, Daniel Murphy wrote:
>> >> - Would generate false pointers
>> > Fair point but we're also moving to precise collection :o).
>>
>>
>> I don't know of a good generic way to do precise collection with unions.
>>
>
> I wonder if precise collectors could leverage runtime support for
> ambiguous cases? opPreciseCollect() which might return an array of pointers
> contained in T, which would allow runtime logic to determine how the union
> should be interpreted... Or maybe the function should receive a delegate
> which the function should call on each embedded pointer.
>
> I'm sure some standardised runtime support function can help out in these
> cases...
>

This would be useful too for applications that use bit-packed or
encoded/implied pointers...

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