On Sunday, 19 November 2017 at 14:46:32 UTC, Rumbu wrote:
On Sunday, 19 November 2017 at 02:16:36 UTC, Luís Marques wrote:
https://github.com/dotnet/corefxlab/blob/master/docs/specs/span.md
Seems like D wisdom is creeping in. For instance, the Data
Pipelines section basically explains why ranges/slices and
algorithms are nice and relevant:
<https://github.com/dotnet/corefxlab/blob/master/docs/specs/span.md#data-pipelines>
Sorry to disappoint, but Span<T> is something else. The .net
equivalent of D slices is in fact the not so popular
ArraySegment<T> available in .net since 2008.
Span<T> will allow access to unmanaged and stack memory in the
same way as using a standard array.
Actually Span<T> is a lot more like D slices in that it can use
any type of memory.
ArraySegment<T> can only be initialized with an array type and
thus is very far from being like a D slice.
I use D slices exclusively with non-GC memory or mapped files and
similarly I can now make use of Span<T> but I was never able to
employ ArraySegment<T>.
