I am newbie to D learning it for sometime using Ali's book. I came across std.experimental.allocator and read through http://dlang.org/library/std/experimental/allocator/building_blocks.html . Can someone explain me the actual benefits of using this and if so any benchmarks explaining the advantage. Maybe its too advanced for me as a beginner now its just I am curious over the usage and applications with a simple hello world like example explaining what this library will accomplish. I asked it previously at https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4hti33/dconf_2016_is_streaming_right_now/d2satic/ but still I don't understand the exact applications of the same.

On Wednesday, 4 January 2017 at 04:50:55 UTC, xtreak wrote:
> I am newbie to D learning it for sometime using Ali's book. I came across std.experimental.allocator and read through http://dlang.org/library/std/experimental/allocator/building_blocks.html . Can someone explain me the actual benefits of using this and if so any benchmarks explaining the advantage. Maybe its too advanced for me as a beginner now its just I am curious over the usage and applications with a simple hello world like example explaining what this library will accomplish. I asked it previously at https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4hti33/dconf_2016_is_streaming_right_now/d2satic/ but still I don't understand the exact applications of the same.

I'd say it's one of those things where if you are asking about it, you probably don't need it. I don't think there is such a thing as "hello world"[1] because memory allocation is an advanced topic. Maybe a better question is what you plan to do with D, because in my opinion, most users don't need to worry about it.

[1] There might be "hello world" for usage, but not for motivation.

On Wednesday, 4 January 2017 at 04:50:55 UTC, xtreak wrote:
> I am newbie to D learning it for sometime using Ali's book. I came across std.experimental.allocator and read through http://dlang.org/library/std/experimental/allocator/building_blocks.html . Can someone explain me the actual benefits of using this and if so any benchmarks explaining the advantage. Maybe its too advanced for me as a beginner now its just I am curious over the usage and applications with a simple hello world like example explaining what this library will accomplish. I asked it previously at https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4hti33/dconf_2016_is_streaming_right_now/d2satic/ but still I don't understand the exact applications of the same.

Allocators might be a good addition to the articles pages on the website.  Not sure if this has been discussed or if we are adding much there.

On Saturday, 7 January 2017 at 19:50:14 UTC, dewitt wrote:
> On Wednesday, 4 January 2017 at 04:50:55 UTC, xtreak wrote:
>> I am newbie to D learning it for sometime using Ali's book. I came across std.experimental.allocator and read through http://dlang.org/library/std/experimental/allocator/building_blocks.html . Can someone explain me the actual benefits of using this and if so any benchmarks explaining the advantage. Maybe its too advanced for me as a beginner now its just I am curious over the usage and applications with a simple hello world like example explaining what this library will accomplish. I asked it previously at https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4hti33/dconf_2016_is_streaming_right_now/d2satic/ but still I don't understand the exact applications of the same.
>
> Allocators might be a good addition to the articles pages on the website.  Not sure if this has been discussed or if we are adding much there.

You may also consider making a PR to the Dlang Tour:

https://tour.dlang.org

There's already an open issue about a "@nogc gem":

https://github.com/dlang-tour/english/issues/10