On 09/03/2012 08:01 PM, David Nadlinger wrote:
On Monday, 3 September 2012 at 14:04:18 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
A sufficiently smart compiler (tm) could
optimize this to a efficient string "prefix switch statement" just as
well…
I agree. But then http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SufficientlySmartCompiler.
This is exactly my point: My feeling is that the increased complexity
What complexity?
by introducing a second syntax resp. a new special case (i.e. among) for
such a simple operation is only worth it if it leaves no reason to
revert to a hand-written replacement for performance reason,
[ ].canFind( ) allocates on the GC heap without a sufficiently smart
compiler.
and I'm not sure if the signature taking runtime parameters is enough for that
(without assuming such a sufficiently smart compiler).
David
