D's confusing strings (was Re: D on hackernews)

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 9/21/11 1:20 PM, Christophe Travert wrote:
> Dealing with utfencoded strings is less efficient, but there is a number
> of algorithms that can be optimized for utfencoded strings, like copying
> or finding an ascii char in a string. Unfortunately, there is no
> practical way to do this with the current range API.

I'd love to hear more about that. The standard library does optimize 
certain algorithms for UTF strings.

Andrei