Re: Allocating a wstring on the stack (no GC)?

[monarch_dodra via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 7 May 2014 at 19:18:09 UTC, Maxime 
Chevalier-Boisvert wrote:
Is the slice going to be allocated on the stack? (I imagine 
the answer is yes)

Slicing doesn't change where the data is allocated. Slicing 
means just creating a new struct that contains a length and 
pointer to the data (and the struct itself is allocated 
in-place. So it's allocated on the stack, or inside a struct 
instance, or inside a class instance, or on the data segment, 
etc).

Indeed. It's the struct representing the slice I was asking 
about. Off to test out the performance impact :)

I slice is really nothing more than a fat pointer (a pointer + a 
size_t). You don't really allocate it any more than you allocate 
a pointer when you do:
int* p = &someInt;