On 10/21/11 1:39 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
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.
The key here is to allow people to easily either decode strings or not,
without defaulting to an error-prone choice.
Andrei
