Re: DConf2016 Livestream questions

2016-05-08 Thread Liran Zvibel via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 5 May 2016 at 21:51:56 UTC, Vadim Goryunov wrote: Question to Liran Zvibel: Did you (Weka.IO team) consider possibility to write all code in zeroGC fashion? i.e. pre-allocating as much as possible, using manual malloc/free for regular allocations or using arena-style allocator for

Re: DConf2016 Livestream questions

2016-05-05 Thread Vadim Goryunov via Digitalmars-d
Question to Liran Zvibel: Did you (Weka.IO team) consider possibility to write all code in zeroGC fashion? i.e. pre-allocating as much as possible, using manual malloc/free for regular allocations or using arena-style allocator for temporary stuff? If yes, why did you ended up in using GC. I

Re: DConf2016 Livestream questions

2016-05-04 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d
On 5/4/16 7:32 PM, Jack Stouffer wrote: On Wednesday, 4 May 2016 at 17:23:01 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: So this really isn't something that's super-important to solve. Do you have a specific use case? -Steve Well, in most cases the length function should be marked const because it usual

Re: DConf2016 Livestream questions

2016-05-04 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 4 May 2016 at 17:23:01 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: So this really isn't something that's super-important to solve. Do you have a specific use case? -Steve Well, in most cases the length function should be marked const because it usually doesn't modify the struct in any way

DConf2016 Livestream questions

2016-05-04 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d
(moved from the old 2015 thread) On 5/4/16 5:44 PM, Jack Stouffer wrote: > On Thursday, 28 May 2015 at 00:54:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> John Colvin's experiment is great and we want to make it a full >> success. Please post here feedback and suggestions for tomorrow's >> DConf streamin