30-Oct-2013 01:59, Joseph Rushton Wakeling пишет:
On 29/10/13 15:58, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
Can't it use ref-counted COW? Then since there is only 1 reference to the
original block it may mutate it in-place else it creates new chunk
with refs=1
and decrements the original count. Maybe I'm missing something but it
shouldn't
be that hard.
Yes, that's pretty much what I was thinking of. The question is how to
implement it in terms of std.allocator -- or is that the wrong base to
build ref=counted memory upon?
Like others said - just use allocator.alloc/allocator.free instead of
malloc/free nothing stellar.
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Dmitry Olshansky