Major performance problem with std.array.front()

[Robert Schadek]

On 03/07/2014 12:56 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. Implicit decoding
> must die.
>
> I strongly believe that implicit decoding of character points in
> std.range has been a mistake.
>
> - Algorithms such as "countUntil" will count code points. These
> numbers are useless for slicing, and can introduce hard-to-find bugs.
+1 see my pull requests for std.string:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1952
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1977