On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:12 AM, dsimcha <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/16/2011 11:46 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> * newArray -> "For performance reasons, the returned array is not >> initialized." Then call it newUninitializedArray. Make safety the >> default and lack thereof the verbose alternative. > > Here I'm going to have to strongly disagree with you. The whole point of > TempAlloc is that it's a performance hack. In general I agree it's better > to do the safe thing by default, but libraries specifically written as > performance hacks are an exception. In TempAlloc it makes sense to do the > efficient thing by default. I personally would never use newArray as > opposed to newUninitializedArray and TempAlloc.newUninitializedArray (31 > characters) feels **ridiculously** verbose and would clutter the API.
Hmm. If this is a hack then what is it doing in the std library for the language?!
