Open zhelenskiy opened 1 year ago
There is another use-case I would like to share:
Here: https://docs.korge.org/ktcc/
There I'm doing black magic tricks that are really dirty to avoid allocations, and the code looks ugly. Being able to have something like:
value class MyPointer(val buffer: Buffer, val offset: Int) { var x: Double get() = buffer.getDouble(0); set(value) { buffer.setDouble(0, value) } var y: Double get() = buffer.getDouble(8); set(value) { buffer.setDouble(8, value) } }
That would help to have C-like pointers: an array or buffer + offset (+ maybe optionally size)
array
buffer
offset
size
There is another use-case I would like to share:
Here: https://docs.korge.org/ktcc/
There I'm doing black magic tricks that are really dirty to avoid allocations, and the code looks ugly. Being able to have something like:
That would help to have C-like pointers: an
array
orbuffer
+offset
(+ maybe optionallysize
)