On Friday, 1 November 2013 at 02:43:00 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 10/31/13 7:26 PM, safety0ff wrote:
I noticed that the GCAllocator provides no way of controlling
the memory
block attributes
(http://dlang.org/phobos/core_memory.html#.GC.BlkAttr
,) all allocations get the default (no attributes.) This is a
leaky
abstraction, a data structure or composed allocators may
desire to
control the attributes to reduce GC pressure.
These attributes seem to be informed by the types stored, which
would be above the charter of untyped allocator.
Andrei
The choice is for the typed allocator. That mean that untyped
allocator should either provide the choice, or assume the worse
(it may contain pointer).
