Manu wrote:
On 26 November 2011 23:39, Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com <mailto: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.
I think ranges are here to avoid memcopying and pointless allocations.
