Major performance problem with std.array.front()

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/8/14, 8:08 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> 08-Mar-2014 19:33, Andrei Alexandrescu пишет:
>> I.e. the
>> byGrapheme iteration normalizes on the fly.
>
> Oh crap, please no. It's not only _Slow_ but it's also horribly
> complicated (even in off-line, eager version). + there are 4
> normalizations, of which 2 are lossy.
>
> You simply can't be serious on this one, though seeing that you
> introduced auto-decoding then by extension you must have proposed to
> normalize on the fly :)

Yah, just pushing my luck :o). I don't know much about graphemes and 
normalization, so leaving that stuff to you guys.

Andrei