New Article: My Experience Porting Python Dateutil's Date Parser to D

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 10 March 2016 at 00:29:46 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
>> It's a pretty straight forward standard iterator design and 
>> quite different from the table pointers C++ uses.
>
> I explain my grievances in the article.

They didn't make all that much sense to me, so I wondered what 
Theo's issues were. As in: real issues that have empirical 
significance.

D ranges and Python's are regular iterators, nothing special. The 
oddball are C++ "iterators" that are pairs of pointers.

Efficiency and semantic issues when it comes to 
iterator-implementation go both ways all depending on the 
application area. This is nothing new. People have known this for 
ages, as in decades.

If you want fast you have to use a "next" iterator-implementation 
writing multiple elements directly to the buffer. This is what 
you do in signal processing.