Am Sun, 03 Aug 2014 09:17:57 -0700 schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org>:
> On 8/3/14, 8:51 AM, Johannes Pfau wrote: > > > > Variant uses TypeInfo internally, right? > > No. > https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/blob/master/std/variant.d#L210 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/blob/master/std/variant.d#L371 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/blob/master/std/variant.d#L696 Also the handler function concept will always have more overhead than a simple tagged union. It is certainly useful if you want to store any type, but if you only want a limited set of types there are more efficient implementations.
