On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 11:31:12PM +0000, develop32 wrote: > On Wednesday, 5 March 2014 at 22:46:40 UTC, sclytrack wrote: > >Are there any disadvantages of using a fixed size array for fixed > >size coordinates and vectors, over creating an actual typedef or > >struct Vec3? > > Don't know what's the current situation in druntime, but when I tried > static arrays a while ago in my engine every second there were > megabytes of garbage generated. I ended up using structs with fields.
Whoa. What did you do with those arrays?? Either you did something wrong, or there's a nasty bug somewhere in the compiler/language; AFAIK static arrays are supposed to be value types so they shouldn't generate any garbage at all. T -- A computer doesn't mind if its programs are put to purposes that don't match their names. -- D. Knuth
