What's going on with std.experimental.lexer?

[Brian Schott via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 23:50:40 UTC, Brian Schott wrote:
> SIMD reduces execution time by 5.15% with DMD.
> Compiling the non-SIMD code with GDC reduces execution time by 
> 42.39%.
>
> So... There's that.

Changing the code generator to output a set of if statements that 
implements a binary search did more-or-less nothing with the DMD 
timings, but brought GDC's lead up to 49%. (i.e. the GDC-compiled 
version executes in 51% of the time that the DMD-compiled version 
does)