Major performance problem with std.array.front()

bearophile bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Sun Mar 9 09:02:53 PDT 2014


Vladimir Panteleev:

>> Seriously, Bearophile suggested "ABCD".sort(), and it took 
>> about 6 pages (!) for someone to point out this would be wrong.
>
> Sorting a string has quite limited use in the general case,

It seems I am sorting arrays of mutable ASCII chars often enough 
:-)

Time ago I have even asked for a helper function:
https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10162

Bye,
bearophile


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