On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:50:58 -0400, bearophile wrote: > While doing some string processing I've seen some unusual timings > compared to the C code, so I have written this to see the situation > better. When USE_MEMCPY is false this little benchmark runs about 3+ > times slower:
I did a little benchmark: ldc -release -O5 true: 0.51 false: 0.63 dmd -release -O true: 4.47 false: 3.58 I don't see a very big difference between slice copying and memcpy (but between compilers). Btw.: http://www.digitalmars.com/pnews/read.php? server=news.digitalmars.com&group=digitalmars.D.bugs&artnum=14933
