On Tuesday, 8 October 2013 at 22:58:02 UTC, ponce wrote:
But is it even necessary?
It is nice to have stdlib functions available that can be used anywhere. For std.algorithm, Andrei has said if you ever implement an algorithm by hand, it means the library has failed. But there's two places where that falls short (IMO at least): using it without allocating, and using it without bringing in a bazillion dependencies.
The latter is a bigger problem to me personally than the former (this is why simpledisplay.d as its own implementation of to and split, for example, doing it myself instead of importing phobos cut the compile time and exe size both in half), but a lot more people complain about the gc...
There isn't a great deal of evidence that someone interested in optimization will be blocked on this particular problem, like Peter Alexander said.
yeah, I haven't found it to be a big deal to hunt down allocations either, and reimplementing the functions in phobos that allocate generally isn't hard anyway. But still, if we can do it, we might as well.
