On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:22:15PM -0700, Graydon Hoare wrote: > So about the only wiggle room away from where we are now is that we > might be able to make ~[] represented by (ptr,len) pairs too, like > slices are, rather than 1 ptr that points to a [len,data...] buffer. > But it's not clear if that would buy us anything. Maybe a bit more > genericity in impls, though I don't know how; Niko might. There > might be a bit more room for improvement here, but it's an > _extremely_ constrained space to work in.
I've been working on a blog post about this. I'm not yet sure if it buys us anything. I'll try to finish that up and get it out. But basically everything you said is true, particularly that last sentence! Niko _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
