On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:39:58 -0400, Walter Bright
<newshou...@digitalmars.com> 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.
What I mean is, default to a well-built string type, and let people who
want to deal with arrays of code-units deal with arrays of code-units.
This schizophrenic view phobos has of char[] arrays as not being arrays is
horrendous to work with.
For my usage, I almost never iterate over string characters or graphemes,
I just pass strings.
-Steve
