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Ah..so it sounds like this would be essentially a boondoggle without a
patch to povray.. :(
I don't like boondoggles. My typical contract already resembles a Dilbert
comic (today I was in a meeting to determine who would be in the meeting
to define a process for deciding if we should pass a 1 or a 100 to a
particular webservice...*cries*)
Ian
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 16:40:46 -0500, Christian Froeschlin <chr### [at] chrfr de>
wrote:
> [GDS|Entropy] wrote:
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>> only something of a facsimile reproduction of the .NET fluff.
>
> I think the main two problems for implementing some
> of these data structures in SDL are
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> 1. No memory allocation from heap for things like list elements
> 2. No good way of grouping two values of different type (struct)
> such as key-value pairs in a dictionary.
>
> That said, you probably *could* implement your own memory
> allocation in one big array, reference every item of data as
> an integer (basically a "pointer") and use this for allocation.
> This also gives you untyped "structs" as arrays of integers.
>
> In case the main memory array runs out of free blocks, replace
> it with an array of twice the original size, copying the original
> contents in the first half.
>
> It's completely insane but you might have a lot of fun with it ;)
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