On Tuesday, December 14, 2010 16:35:34 Craig Black wrote: > > What say you? > > I feel like the odd man out here since my perspective is so different. I > use custom container classes even in C++, partly because I can usually get > better performance that way, and because I can customize the the container > however I like. So I will probably be doing my own containers if/when I > use D. > > Beyond that, my own personal preferences seem so different that I hesitate > to mention them. I use dynamic arrays by far the most out of all container > classes. I use them so much that I cringe at the thought of allocating > them on the GC heap. My code is very high performance and I would like to > keep it that way. > > Also, my usage of arrays is such that most of them are empty, so it is > important to me that the empty arrays are stored efficiently. Using my > custom container class, an empty array does not require a heap allocation, > and only requires a single pointer to be allocated. > > Not sure if these requirements are important to anyone else, but I don't > mind making my own custom containers if I need to.
Dynamic arrays are already on the GC heap... - Jonathan M Davis
