Andrei Alexandrescu: > I think at the end of the day, regardless the relative possibilities of > file reading in the two languages, we should be faster than Python when > allocating one new string per line.
For now I suggest you to aim to be just about as fast as Python in this task :-) Beating Python significantly on this task is probably not easy. (Later someday I'd also like D AAs to become about as fast as Python dicts.) Bye, bearophile
