Slower than Python

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/1/13 8:29 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:05:34 -0500, cvk012c
> <cvk012c at motorolasolutions.com> wrote:
>
>> In my latest version of D script I didn't use splitter at all. I used
>> string specific indexOf function. Still result is very bad. For text
>> based protocols, such as SIP, performance of string manipulating
>> functions is very important. Unfortunately, looks like it is not D
>> strongest point at this time.
>
> indexOf uses the same mechanism as splitter to find the separators. If
> it doesn't improve anything, I'd say that is where the problem lies
> (std.algorithm.find).

find and indexOf on arrays are on par with handwritten loops.

Andrei