== Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org)'s article > On 6/5/11 5:25 PM, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote: > > Code: > > > > https://github.com/dsimcha/TempAlloc/blob/master/tempalloc.d > > > > Docs: > > > > http://cis.jhu.edu/~dsimcha/d/phobos/core_tempalloc.html > I'll get back with a real review, but before I forget, there is one > thing that I also noticed in the proposal: TempAlloc is good to have but > the marketing folks should be dialed down a bit. In the documentation > TempAlloc lists two advantages compared to stack allocation and three > advantages compared to heap allocation. There's no disadvantage, > drawback, caveat, etc. listed at all. If we went by the documentation it > would appear that TempAlloc is the be-all-end-all memory allocator to > replace all others. > Documentation must clarify when use of TempAlloc is favored and when > other allocation methods should be chosen instead. > Thanks, > Andrei
Yeah, I'm really not sure how much marketing these proposals are supposed to have. One criticism of my std.parallelism proposal, IIRC, was too little marketing.
