On 2011-09-06 02:33, dsimcha wrote:
== Quote from Jonathan M Davis ([email protected])'s article
dsimcha, is there any reason not to start the review of the region allocator
shortly? Does a review period of about 2 weeks, ending on Wednesday, the 21st
sound good?
- Jonathan M Davis
Sounds perfect. Thanks. A few issues that I'd like mentioned in the initial
announcement because they need to be examined:
1. This is both a proposal for RegionAllocator and a proposal for a more
general
allocator API in Phobos. The allocator API will be a structural interface that
includes the intersection of gcallocator and regionallocator functionality. I
don't have a more precise definition yet. Hopefully the review process will
hammer out whatever ambiguities remain.
2. Should we put this stuff in a std.allocators package, in a single
std.allocators module, or something else?
We should put this stuff in a std.allocators package, we definitely do
NOT want yet another enormous module, yes I'm looking at you std.datetime.
3. We definitely want a reap (combination region and heap) eventually, though I
don't have one yet. I want RegionAllocator to be reviewed for anything that
would
make it unnecessarily hard to write other allocators on top of it, most
importantly reaps but also free lists, etc.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
