alt Hacker NewsI wish more programming languages implemented record types as seen in databases, where dynamically sized fields are packed into a contiguous area of memory.
The CloudFlare manually implemented a clumsy version of this.
Wouldn’t it be nice for the compiler to manage this for you in the same way that your database engine does when it saves a “row”?
> dynamically sized fields are packed into a contiguous area of memory
Are you able to explain this? Do you mean an N sized array where each entry is either a value or a pointer to a value where the 'pointed-to' values are after the end of the array?
I'm trying to underatnd how you'd do this without having to parse M-1 elements to get the Mth entry if you did a [{size0, value0}, ....., {sizeN, valueN}] arrangement