handful and interval

[Timon Gehr]

On 09/03/2012 08:01 PM, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Monday, 3 September 2012 at 14:04:18 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> A sufficiently smart compiler (tm) could
>>> optimize this to a efficient string "prefix switch statement" just as
>>> well…
>>
>> I agree. But then http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SufficientlySmartCompiler.
>
> This is exactly my point: My feeling is that the increased complexity

What complexity?

> by introducing a second syntax resp. a new special case (i.e. among) for
> such a simple operation is only worth it if it leaves no reason to
> revert to a hand-written replacement for performance reason,

[ ].canFind( ) allocates on the GC heap without a sufficiently smart 
compiler.

> and I'm not sure if the signature taking runtime parameters is enough for that
> (without assuming such a sufficiently smart compiler).
>
> David