• bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> Feb 28 2009
• Lutger <lutger.blijdestijn gmail.com> Mar 01 2009

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

Jason House>By dynamic, do you mean no length as part of the type or resizable
in place? Array resizing can lead to hidden allocations,<

Thy aren't hidden: when you grow a dynamic array you know an allocation
generally takes place. If you don't want reallocations, then never grow or join
them, and the reallocations will not happen. There's nothing hidden.

Bye,
bearophile

Lutger <lutger.blijdestijn gmail.com> writes:

bearophile wrote:

 Jason House>By dynamic, do you mean no length as part of the type or 


 
 Thy aren't hidden: when you grow a dynamic array you know an allocation 


join them, and the reallocations will not happen. There's nothing hidden.
 
 Bye,
 bearophile


I agree, it's something that I think is quickly understood by newcomers to 
the language. It's the same problem as string concatenation in C# and Java, 
where the common idiom is to use StringBuilder. I have seen such builders 
floating around in the ng, but is it phobos or tango already?