Thread overview
Why was new(size_t s) { } deprecated in favor of an external allocator?
Oct 14, 2020
Jack
Oct 14, 2020
Max Haughton
Oct 15, 2020
Patrick Schluter
Oct 15, 2020
Paul Backus
Oct 15, 2020
Max Haughton
Oct 15, 2020
Daniel Kozak
October 14, 2020
What was the reasoning behind this decision?
October 14, 2020
On Wednesday, 14 October 2020 at 20:27:10 UTC, Jack wrote:
> What was the reasoning behind this decision?

Andrei's std::allocator talk from a few years ago at cppcon covers this (amongst other things)
October 15, 2020
On Wednesday, 14 October 2020 at 20:32:51 UTC, Max Haughton wrote:
> On Wednesday, 14 October 2020 at 20:27:10 UTC, Jack wrote:
>> What was the reasoning behind this decision?
>
> Andrei's std::allocator talk from a few years ago at cppcon covers this (amongst other things)

Yes, and what did he say?
You seriously don't expect people to search for a random talk from a random event from a random year?
October 15, 2020
On Thursday, 15 October 2020 at 06:39:00 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote:
> On Wednesday, 14 October 2020 at 20:32:51 UTC, Max Haughton wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 14 October 2020 at 20:27:10 UTC, Jack wrote:
>>> What was the reasoning behind this decision?
>>
>> Andrei's std::allocator talk from a few years ago at cppcon covers this (amongst other things)
>
> Yes, and what did he say?
> You seriously don't expect people to search for a random talk from a random event from a random year?

It's quite easy to find on youtube. First result searching for "andrei std allocator":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIb3L4vKZ7U

The slides are also available here:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CppCon/CppCon2015/master/Presentations/allocator%20Is%20to%20Allocation%20what%20vector%20Is%20to%20Vexation/allocator%20Is%20to%20Allocation%20what%20vector%20Is%20to%20Vexation%20-%20Andrei%20Alexandrescu%20-%20CppCon%202015.pdf
October 15, 2020
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 10:30 PM Jack via Digitalmars-d-learn < digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com> wrote:

> What was the reasoning behind this decision?
>

https://dlang.org/deprecate.html#Class allocators and deallocators


October 15, 2020
On Thursday, 15 October 2020 at 06:39:00 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote:
> On Wednesday, 14 October 2020 at 20:32:51 UTC, Max Haughton wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 14 October 2020 at 20:27:10 UTC, Jack wrote:
>>> What was the reasoning behind this decision?
>>
>> Andrei's std::allocator talk from a few years ago at cppcon covers this (amongst other things)
>
> Yes, and what did he say?
> You seriously don't expect people to search for a random talk from a random event from a random year?

It's the first result when you search for "Andrei std::allocator"