On Thursday, 5 March 2015 at 16:19:09 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
On Thursday, 5 March 2015 at 15:20:47 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote:
On Monday, 23 February 2015 at 22:15:54 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
private:
E[] array;
size_t start, end;
int* count;
What is the point of keeping start/end? Aren't those baked
into the array slice? Not storing start end means not having
to do index arithmetic (minor), reducing struct size (always
nice). But more importantly, it allows implicit (and
conditional) bounds checking (awesome), which actually runs
regardless anyways.
Or did I miss something?
`GC.free()` needs a pointer to the start of the allocated
block; it will not release memory if it gets an interior
pointer. But as far as I can see, one pointer that stores the
original address should be enough.
Still, you shouldn't need "end", and bounds checking would "just
work".
