Is there any overhead iterating over a pointer using a slice?

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 31 May 2016 at 18:55:18 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> Is there any overhead compared with pointer arithmetic in a for 
> loop?

Very very little. The slice will ensure start and stop indexes 
are in bounds before the loop (and throw an RangeError if it 
isn't), but inside the loop, it should generate exactly the same 
code.