On Friday, 3 October 2014 at 01:57:37 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
The idea being that a call like `formattedWrite("%d", n)` is
far more
likely to be reused in other places in the program, than the
specific
format string "You have %d items in mailbox %s" and that
specific
combination of parameter types (int, string). So even though
this does
incur some template bloat, it will hopefully break down the
template
instantiations into smaller chunks that are frequently reused.
Maybe you could do this as some kind of implicit range of
"formatting references" so that you can iterate over it in two
passes and save a heap allocation for situations where traversal
is cheap (fits in level 1 cache):
1. first pass: collect max buffer size
2. alloca buffer on stack
3. second pass: format into buffer
?
