Investigation: downsides of being generic and correct

[Samuel Lampa]

On 05/17/2013 11:41 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> We need to do more to optimize Phobos, but given our stance of correctness by
> default, we're kind of stuck with string functions taking a performance hit in
> a number of common cases simply due to the necessary decoding of code points.
> We can do better at making them fast, and reduce problems like this, but
> ultimately, if you want fast ASCII-only operations, you almost certainly need
> to operate on something like ubyte[] rather than string, and that requires
> educating people. It's one of the costs of trying to be both correct and
> performant.

At least I'm now educated on this :")

// Samuel