Bartosz Milewski seems to like D more than C++ now :)

[bearophile]

Piotr Szturmaj:

> Some time ago I proposed a hybrid range concept where the 
> front() is an array. All algorithms would first traverse the 
> memory in this array, then call popFront to get another array 
> (slice). In this way, function call overhead is minimized 
> because it's paid sparsely rather than for each range element.

There are papers on this topic, like:
http://lafstern.org/matt/segmented.pdf

Bye,
bearophile