"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisp...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.467.1282518397.13841.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... > On Sunday 22 August 2010 14:04:24 Walter Bright wrote: >> Walter Bright wrote: >> > This also means if you merely translate a program from Java to D, don't >> > expect it to necessarily run faster. You're going to need to >> > refactor/reengineer it for speed. For example, replacing classes with >> > value types. >> >> Oh, and using slicing, too. > > Slicing has got to be one of D's coolest features
Yea, I agree. Back in my C/C++ days, I actively avoided doing any string processing whenever I could, just because it was such a PITA.
