Re: Major performance problem with std.array.front()

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Sunday, 9 March 2014 at 17:18:47 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
On 3/9/14, 5:28 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
So IIUC iterating over s.byChar would not encounter the 
decoding-related
speed hits that Walter is concerned about?

That is correct.

Unless I'm missing something, all algorithms that can work faster 
on arrays will need to be adapted to also recognize 
byChar-wrapped arrays, unwrap them, perform the fast array 
operation, and wrap them back in a byChar.