[GSOC] Persistent Data Structures detailed information

[Stefanos Baziotis]

On Monday, 8 April 2019 at 11:32:01 UTC, Jay wrote:
> Hey Stefanos, firstly thanks a lot for replying and helping out 
> even though you are submitting a proposal for the same project 
> :-p.

It's a team sport :)

>
> It hadn't even come to my notice that D does not have a 
> malloc-like function for dynamic address generation.
Do you mean dynamic memory allocation?

> All I can think of as of now is interfacing c++ library in 
> creating the data structure, but as it won't be the best 
> solution the only option we have is implementing a <stdlib.h> 
> like library. Would love to hear your any other ideas on the 
> same.

Roughly this is what I meant with the creation of a 
strongly-typed allocator, but not
a C++ one, rather a D one. There's a great discussion of this 
here [1]
which is about another GSoC idea. Even then though, it still 
doesn't
seem like a very good plan to me.

[1] 
https://forum.dlang.org/thread/pvhacqomqgnhmqienfpi@forum.dlang.org