"Andrei Alexandrescu" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On 2/6/11 12:42 PM, spir wrote: >> Also: could a (truely) circular buffer help & solve the above copy >> problem, concretely? > > Not if you want infinite lookahead, which I think is what any modern > buffering system should offer. >
Agreed, but not everything always needs infinite lookahead. And sometimes space guarantees are important.
