Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote: > On 10/22/2011 2:21 AM, Peter Alexander wrote: >> Which operations do you believe would be less efficient? > > All of the ones that don't require decoding, such as searching, would be > less efficient if decoding was done.
You can std.algorithm.find to do searching, not foreach. The former can decide whichever efficient method to use.