my first D program (and benchmark against perl)

[Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 12 November 2015 at 12:49:55 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote:
> On Thursday, 12 November 2015 at 12:25:08 UTC, Daniel Kozak 
> wrote:
> ...	
>     auto res = appender(uninitializedArray!(char[])(total));
>     res.clear();
> ...

this is faster for DMD and ldc:

auto res = appender!(string)();
res.reserve(total);

but for gdc(fronend version 2.066) it makes it two times slower 
(same for dmd, ldc 2.066 and older)