Major performance problem with std.array.front()

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Friday, 7 March 2014 at 04:19:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> I'd rather fix the compiler's codegen than add a pragma.

The codegen isn't broken, the current this pointer behavior is 
needed for full compatibility with the C ABI. It would be opt in 
to an ABI tweak that the caller needs to be aware of rather than 
an traditional optimization where the outside world would never 
know.