Major performance problem with std.array.front()

[bearophile]

Vladimir Panteleev:

> What do you use this for?

For lots of different reasons (counting, testing, histograms, to 
unique-ify, to allow binary searches, etc), you can find 
alternative solutions for every one of those use cases.


> I can think of sort being useful e.g. to see which characters 
> appear in a string (and with which frequency), but as the 
> concept does not apply to all languages, one would need to draw 
> a line somewhere for which languages they want to support. I 
> think this should be done explicitly in user code.

So far I have needed to sort 7-bit ASCII chars.

Bye,
bearophile