• bearophile (10/10) Nov 27 2008 In C99 there are two features that may be useful in D programs too:

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

In C99 there are two features that may be useful in D programs too:

1) The restrict keyword:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrict
http://www.cellperformance.com/mike_acton/2006/05/demystifying_the_restrict_keyw.html

2) And the stack allocated variable-length arrays (that reduce most of the need
for alloca() and can be used for small arrays):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable-length_array
This is less necessary in D because it has built-in dynamic arrays, but for
small arrays it can be useful, as a performance optimization feature.

Are there proposals of adding them to D?

Bye,
bearophile