Major performance problem with std.array.front()

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/8/14, 8:24 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Sunday, 9 March 2014 at 04:18:15 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> What exactly is the consensus? From your wiki page I see "One of the
>> proposals in the thread is to switch the iteration type of string
>> ranges from dchar to the string's character type."
>>
>> I can tell you straight out: That will not happen for as long as I'm
>> working on D.
>
> Why?

 From the cycle "going in circles": because I think the breakage is way 
too large compared to the alleged improvement. In fact I believe that 
that design is inferior to the current one regardless.

Andrei