[Swift-devel] new coaster code

[Zhao Zhang]

Hi, Mihael

Does this mean that the "Block Allocation" and "Dynamic Allocation" 
could not coexist? By Dynamic Allocation, I mean
the one is currently working in coaster.

zhao

Mihael Hategan wrote:
> In the development of the block allocation code, I had to make a
> decision not to keep backwards compatibility (i.e. have both the old
> code and the block allocation code simultaneously useable). This is due
> to:
>
> 1. The old code, while working, had problems that in the long run didn't
> seem like a good idea to have.
> 2. It's easier, from a development perspective, to not have to abstract
> over two fairly different implementations of a sub-system.
>
> What this means is that once I commit the block allocation code, the old
> behavior is gone, and if you learned to rely on its peculiarities, that
> won't work.
>
> So I'm trying to ask folks how they would like to see this handled.
> Opinions, suggestions, etc.
>
> Mihael
>
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