On Friday, 10 July 2020 at 10:13:23 UTC, wjoe wrote:
However stack memory needs to be allocated at program start. I don't see a huge benefit in allocation speed vs. heap pre-allocation, or is there? I mean 1 allocation vs 2 isn't going to noticeably improve overall performance.
Allocation on the stack is basically just a single processor instruction that moves the stack pointer (well, ofc you also need to initialize array elements). Meanwhile, allocation on the heap involves much more complex logic of the memory allocator. Moreover, in D dynamic arrays use GC, thus the memory allocation may involve the trash collection step.
