Re: std.allocator is ready for the review

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 2015-06-12 00:18, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:


Code: https://github.com/andralex/phobos/tree/allocator


* Your ODBC code seems to be in the same branch
* You have commented out some code in std.math and std.traits
* What is std.typed_allocator? It doesn't seem to have anything related 
to allocators, some leftover code?


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/Jacob Carlborg

Re: std.allocator is ready for the review

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

Ehm, forgot to give the appropriate links.

Docs entry point: 
http://erdani.com/d/phobos-prerelease/std_experimental_allocator.html, 
see also all modules listed from the left under std.experimental.allocator.


Code: https://github.com/andralex/phobos/tree/allocator


Andrei

std.allocator is ready for the review

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

Well, we're finally there. std.experimental.allocator is ready for review.

There are over 11KLOC (including unittests and ddoc source) to deal 
with, so I wanted to give the community a head start in looking over it 
prior to the official review period.


What std.experimental.allocator is:

* A hookable interface for allocating and releasing memory.

* A systematic and hierarchical approach to global allocation, spanning 
the stack, thread-local storage, and process-level memory.


* A collection of quality implementations of typical memory allocation 
strategies, including free lists, regions, bitmapped blocks, bucketized 
size-specialized allocators, and more.


* A framework for easy assembly and experimentation with custom 
allocation strategies.


* An integration of types within the allocation strategy, allowing 
concrete allocators to exploit various characteristics of the types they 
are allocating.


What std.experimental.allocator is not:

* An abstraction of lifetime management, e.g. transparently choosing 
between tracing vs. reference counting.


* An abstraction of notions such as address, pointer, and reference.


Andrei