Associative array of strings perf

[Daniel Murphy]

Maybe different hash functions are used?

"bearophile" <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote in message 
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> Do you know why an associative array like this:
> uint[immutable(char)[]] aa;
>
> Is almost two times faster than a very similar associative array like 
> this?
> uint[immutable(E)[]] aa;
>
> Where E is a named typed enum of chars like:
> enum E : char { a='a', b='b', c='c', d='d', ... }
>
> Testing code:
> http://codepad.org/hzcRH8Bd
>
> Bye,
> bearophile