On Friday, 7 February 2014 at 08:24:39 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1911
This adds a package std.buffer, and the first entry in that
package, std.buffer.scopebuffer.
ScopeBuffer is an OutputRange that sits on the stack, and
overflows to malloc/free. It's designed to help in eliminating
gc allocation by lower level functions that return buffers,
such as std.path.buildPath(). With some judicious user tuning
of the initial stack size, it can virtually eliminate storage
allocation.
Using it is @system, but the user of ScopeBuffer can be
@trusted.
An output range like this is a precursor to eliminating the
excessive gc use by functions such as buildPath().
Wasn't there a simple composed Allocator from std.allocator that
did exactly this? Composing InSituAllocator with Mallocator
through FallbackAllocator or something.
