Jonathan M Davis: > The biggest difference is that a vector has capacity separate from its > size/length. You can efficiency insert elements at the end with a vector - > amortized constant time usually - but you can't do that with a built-in > array because it would have to reallocate every time. D's arrays are > fantastic, but they're still not quite good enough to outright replace a > vector type.
I can think about the opposite too: to remove the built-in dynamic arrays and replace them as it's being done with associative arrays, keeping only the syntax sugar and mapping them to the Array/Vector. Is this a bad idea? (this is only about dynamic arrays, at the moment built-in fixed-sized arrays have to be kept). Bye, bearophile
