Am 2014-02-16 17:16, schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
It does exactly that, it says:
1) No COW
As said already: SetLength *is* a write!
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On Sun, 16 Feb 2014, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
Am 2014-02-16 13:47, schrieb Florian Klämpfl:
setlength does not behave freaky but its behaviour is well designed. The
reason why setlength does a deep copy is simple: multithreading. If
setlength had no deep copy semantics, it would need locking
Am 2014-02-16 13:47, schrieb Florian Klämpfl:
> setlength does not behave freaky but its behaviour is well designed. The
> reason why setlength does a deep copy is simple: multithreading. If
> setlength had no deep copy semantics, it would need locking of the whole
> array data, not only locked ac
Hello together!
A little follow up of the feature announcement: After an internal
discussion regarding language clarity last October it was decided that
type helpers should not be enabled by default. Thus a new modeswitch
"typehelpers" was added in revision 26796 that switches on "type helper
Am 2014-02-16 13:20, schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
> Depends on how you define 'write to the array'.
> "Writing to the array" = "Changing the value of one of the elements in the
array."
> In this sense, setlength does not write to the array, which would mean
changing the value of
> one or more of
Am 15.02.2014 19:41, schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
>
> That setlength behaves rather freakish for dynamic arrays, does not
> mean we have copy-on-write.
setlength does not behave freaky but its behaviour is well designed. The
reason why setlength does a deep copy is simple: multithreading. If
setl
On Sun, 16 Feb 2014, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
Am 2014-02-15 19:41, schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
That setlength behaves rather freakish for dynamic arrays, does not mean we
have copy-on-write.
Well, setlength *is* a write.
What else is it?
Doesn't it write to the array?
Depends on how you
Am 2014-02-15 19:41, schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
That setlength behaves rather freakish for dynamic arrays, does not mean we
have copy-on-write.
Well, setlength *is* a write.
What else is it?
Doesn't it write to the array?
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