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std.experimental.allocator.building_blocks.region

struct Region(ParentAllocator = NullAllocator, uint minAlign = platformAlignment, Flag!"growDownwards" growDownwards = No.growDownwards);
A Region allocator allocates memory straight from one contiguous chunk. There is no deallocation, and once the region is full, allocation requests return null. Therefore, Regions are often used (a) in conjunction with more sophisticated allocators; or (b) for batch-style very fast allocations that deallocate everything at once.
The region only stores three pointers, corresponding to the current position in the store and the limits. One allocation entails rounding up the allocation size for alignment purposes, bumping the current pointer, and comparing it against the limit.

If ParentAllocator is different from NullAllocator, Region deallocates the chunk of memory during destruction.

The minAlign parameter establishes alignment. If minAlign > 1, the sizes of all allocation requests are rounded up to a multiple of minAlign. Applications aiming at maximum speed may want to choose minAlign = 1 and control alignment externally.
Examples: 
import std.experimental.allocator.mallocator : Mallocator;
import std.experimental.allocator.building_blocks.allocator_list
    : AllocatorList;
import std.algorithm : max;
// Create a scalable list of regions. Each gets at least 1MB at a time by
// using malloc.
auto batchAllocator = AllocatorList!(
    (size_t n) => Region!Mallocator(max(n, 1024 * 1024))
)();
auto b = batchAllocator.allocate(101);
assert(b.length == 101);
// This will cause a second allocation
b = batchAllocator.allocate(2 * 1024 * 1024);
assert(b.length == 2 * 1024 * 1024);
// Destructor will free the memory
ParentAllocator parent;
The parent allocator. Depending on whether ParentAllocator holds state or not, this is a member variable or an alias for ParentAllocator.instance.
this(void[] store);
this(size_t n);
Constructs a region backed by a user-provided store. Assumes store is aligned at minAlign. Also assumes the memory was allocated with ParentAllocator (if different from NullAllocator).
Parameters:
void[] store User-provided store backing up the region. store must be aligned at minAlign (enforced with assert). If ParentAllocator is different from NullAllocator, memory is assumed to have been allocated with ParentAllocator.
size_t n Bytes to allocate using ParentAllocator. This constructor is only defined If ParentAllocator is different from NullAllocator. If parent.allocate(n) returns null, the region will be initialized as empty (correctly initialized but unable to allocate).
alias alignment = minAlign;
Alignment offered.
void[] allocate(size_t n);
Allocates n bytes of memory. The shortest path involves an alignment adjustment (if alignment > 1), an increment, and a comparison.
Parameters:
size_t n number of bytes to allocate
Returns:
A properly-aligned buffer of size n or null if request could not be satisfied.
void[] alignedAllocate(size_t n, uint a);
Allocates n bytes of memory aligned at alignment a.
Parameters:
size_t n number of bytes to allocate
uint a alignment for the allocated block
Returns:
Either a suitable block of n bytes aligned at a, or null.
void[] allocateAll();
Allocates and returns all memory available to this region.
bool expand(ref void[] b, size_t delta);
Expands an allocated block in place. Expansion will succeed only if the block is the last allocated. Defined only if growDownwards is No.growDownwards.
bool deallocate(void[] b);
Deallocates b. This works only if b was obtained as the last call to allocate; otherwise (i.e. another allocation has occurred since) it does nothing. This semantics is tricky and therefore deallocate is defined only if Region is instantiated with Yes.defineDeallocate as the third template argument.
Parameters:
void[] b Block previously obtained by a call to allocate against this allocator (null is allowed).
bool deallocateAll();
Deallocates all memory allocated by this region, which can be subsequently reused for new allocations.
const Ternary owns(void[] b);
Queries whether b has been allocated with this region.
Parameters:
void[] b Arbitrary block of memory (null is allowed; owns(null) returns false).
Returns:
true if b has been allocated with this region, false otherwise.
const Ternary empty();
Returns Ternary.yes if no memory has been allocated in this region, Ternary.no otherwise. (Never returns Ternary.unknown.)
const size_t available();
Nonstandard property that returns bytes available for allocation.
struct InSituRegion(size_t size, size_t minAlign = platformAlignment);
InSituRegion is a convenient region that carries its storage within itself (in the form of a statically-sized array).
The first template argument is the size of the region and the second is the needed alignment. Depending on the alignment requested and platform details, the actual available storage may be smaller than the compile-time parameter. To make sure that at least n bytes are available in the region, use InSituRegion!(n + a - 1, a).

Given that the most frequent use of InSituRegion is as a stack allocator, it allocates starting at the end on systems where stack grows downwards, such that hot memory is used first.
Examples: 
// 128KB region, allocated to x86's cache line
InSituRegion!(128 * 1024, 16) r1;
auto a1 = r1.allocate(101);
assert(a1.length == 101);

// 128KB region, with fallback to the garbage collector.
import std.experimental.allocator.building_blocks.fallback_allocator
    : FallbackAllocator;
import std.experimental.allocator.building_blocks.free_list
    : FreeList;
import std.experimental.allocator.gc_allocator : GCAllocator;
import std.experimental.allocator.building_blocks.bitmapped_block
    : BitmappedBlock;
FallbackAllocator!(InSituRegion!(128 * 1024), GCAllocator) r2;
const a2 = r2.allocate(102);
assert(a2.length == 102);

// Reap with GC fallback.
InSituRegion!(128 * 1024, 8) tmp3;
FallbackAllocator!(BitmappedBlock!(64, 8), GCAllocator) r3;
r3.primary = BitmappedBlock!(64, 8)(tmp3.allocateAll());
const a3 = r3.allocate(103);
assert(a3.length == 103);

// Reap/GC with a freelist for small objects up to 16 bytes.
InSituRegion!(128 * 1024, 64) tmp4;
FreeList!(FallbackAllocator!(BitmappedBlock!(64, 64), GCAllocator), 0, 16) r4;
r4.parent.primary = BitmappedBlock!(64, 64)(tmp4.allocateAll());
const a4 = r4.allocate(104);
assert(a4.length == 104);
alias alignment = minAlign;
An alias for minAlign, which must be a valid alignment (nonzero power of 2). The start of the region and all allocation requests will be rounded up to a multiple of the alignment. 
InSituRegion!(4096) a1;
assert(a1.alignment == platformAlignment);
InSituRegion!(4096, 64) a2;
assert(a2.alignment == 64);
void[] allocate(size_t n);
Allocates bytes and returns them, or null if the region cannot accommodate the request. For efficiency reasons, if bytes == 0 the function returns an empty non-null slice.
void[] alignedAllocate(size_t n, uint a);
As above, but the memory allocated is aligned at a bytes.
bool deallocate(void[] b);
Deallocates b. This works only if b was obtained as the last call to allocate; otherwise (i.e. another allocation has occurred since) it does nothing. This semantics is tricky and therefore deallocate is defined only if Region is instantiated with Yes.defineDeallocate as the third template argument.
Parameters:
void[] b Block previously obtained by a call to allocate against this allocator (null is allowed).
Ternary owns(void[] b);
Returns Ternary.yes if b is the result of a previous allocation, Ternary.no otherwise.
bool expand(ref void[] b, size_t delta);
Expands an allocated block in place. Expansion will succeed only if the block is the last allocated.
bool deallocateAll();
Deallocates all memory allocated with this allocator.
void[] allocateAll();
Allocates all memory available with this allocator.
size_t available();
Nonstandard function that returns the bytes available for allocation.
struct SbrkRegion(uint minAlign = platformAlignment);
Allocator backed by sbrk for Posix systems. Due to the fact that sbrk is not thread-safe by design, SbrkRegion uses a mutex internally. This implies that uncontrolled calls to brk and sbrk may affect the workings of SbrkRegion adversely.
static shared SbrkRegion instance;
Instance shared by all callers.
enum uint alignment;
shared void[] allocate(size_t bytes);
shared void[] alignedAllocate(size_t bytes, uint a);
Standard allocator primitives.
shared bool expand(ref void[] b, size_t delta);
shared Ternary owns(void[] b);
The expand method may only succeed if the argument is the last block allocated. In that case, expand attempts to push the break pointer to the right.
shared bool deallocate(void[] b);
The deallocate method only works (and returns true) on systems that support reducing the break address (i.e. accept calls to sbrk with negative offsets). OSX does not accept such. In addition the argument must be the last block allocated.
shared bool deallocateAll();
The deallocateAll method only works (and returns true) on systems that support reducing the break address (i.e. accept calls to sbrk with negative offsets). OSX does not accept such.
Ternary empty();
Standard allocator API.