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bvrmn 16 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists

ArrayList is a very generic (pun not intended) structure and could be stretched quite freely in any direction with useful property of owning underlying slice. Like readonly preallocated ArrayList is a thing.

_bohm 16 days ago [–]

That's a good point. Using lockPointers would be a good way to enforce at runtime that your ArrayList is truly read-only.

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