"Andrei Alexandrescu" <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote in message news:iimnm6$1m4a$2...@digitalmars.com... > 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.
