On Thursday, 6 February 2014 at 18:41:25 UTC, Namespace wrote:
I like the idea, but instead of new!strategy I would prefer:
use @strategy(RefCount)
or
use @strategy(GC) // Default
We would have in druntime some functions which are tagged with
@strategy(Whatever) (which are invoked if the use comes):
----
@strategy(C_Memory)
T[] new(T : U[], U)(size_t count) {
return (cast(U*) calloc(count, T.sizeof))[0 .. count];
}
@strategy(C_Memory)
void delete(T : U[], U)(ref U[] arr) {
free(arr.ptr);
arr = null;
}
----
It's not perfect, just a thought.
I'm sure there are a lot of ways to do it. I think the hard part
is coming up with a cohesive and elegant solution that is
efficient. By providing an allocation strategy we can deal with
specific memory issues.
