On 26 November 2011 23:39, Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
> On 11/26/2011 5:46 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: > >> Ranges are not good for reading N bytes from a file >> descriptor. >> > > Why not? Isn't that exactly what a range is supposed to be good for? > It sounds like a bad idea to me... I can imagine ending up with a whole pile of allocations of short ranges, and then people doing bunches of range concatenations to re-assemble the buffer. That's a lot of pointless allocation and memcopying. D's apis should discourage inefficient usage like that.
