On 10/21/2011 4:14 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
Making such a string type would be terribly inefficient. It would make D completely uncompetitive for processing strings.I don't think it would. Do you have any proof to support this?
I've done string processing code, and done a lot of profiling of them. Every cycle is critical, and decoding adds a *lot* of cycles.