Speeding up text file parser (BLAST tabular format)

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 14 September 2015 at 13:05:32 UTC, Andrea Fontana 
wrote:
> On Monday, 14 September 2015 at 12:30:21 UTC, Fredrik Boulund 
> wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Also if problem probabily is i/o related, have you tried with:
> -O -inline -release -noboundscheck
> ?

-inline in particular is likely to have a strong impact here

> Anyway I think it's a good idea to test it against gdc and ldc 
> that are known to generate faster executables.
>
> Andrea

+1 I would expect ldc or gdc to strongly outperform dmd on this 
code.