Major performance problem with std.array.front()

[bearophile]

Walter Bright:

> systems/native programming languages must not hide the 
> underlying representation (I make similar arguments about 
> proposals to make ints issue errors on overflow, etc.).

But it's good to have in Phobos a compiler-intrinsics-based 
efficient overflow detection on a user-defined struct type that 
behaves like built-in ints in all other aspects.


> Is there any hope of fixing this?

I don't think we can change that in D2. You can change it in D3.

Bye,
bearophile