Why the hell doesn't foreach decode strings

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 10/21/11 1:39 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 10/21/2011 4:14 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>> Making such a string type would be terribly inefficient. It would make D
>>> completely uncompetitive for processing strings.
>>
>> I don't think it would. Do you have any proof to support this?
>
> I've done string processing code, and done a lot of profiling of them.
> Every cycle is critical, and decoding adds a *lot* of cycles.

The key here is to allow people to easily either decode strings or not, 
without defaulting to an error-prone choice.

Andrei