Sean Kelly wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
What I'm saying is that with the cache in place we'll have slices
that are safe and efficient. Right now they are not safe and not
efficient. I can hardly find reasons to characterize the new state
of affairs as kludgey.
I'm not sure I agree that they'd be safe. Given only a pointer to
the head of a block there's no way to know whether it represents the
array or a slice of the array from [0..n].
That's the beauty of the cache: with the cache in place, you may
actually know that the memory beyond the end of a cached slice is seen
by nobody else.
Andrei
