Ellery Newcomer: > Is it just me, or does ldc handle gratuitous use of ~= much more poorly > than dmd? Yep. But Tango/LDC devs have ignored me about this so far. You can also try to time the opIn_r on AAs :o] It's (probably) quite bad with LDC+Tango compared to DMD+Phobos. I don't know why. Bye, bearophile