Major performance problem with std.array.front()

[Walter Bright]

On 3/7/2014 2:27 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> Where have you been when it was introduced? :)

It slipped by me. What can I say? I'm not the only committer :-)

But after spending non-trivial time suffering as auto-decode blasted my kingdom, 
I've concluded that it needs to die. Working around it is not easy.

I know that auto-decode has negatively impacted your regex, too. Basically, 
auto-decode is like booking a flight from Seattle to San Francisco with a plane 
change in Atlanta.