Major performance problem with std.array.front()

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Sunday, 9 March 2014 at 17:48:47 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> wc

What should wc produce on a Sanskrit text?

The problem is that such questions quickly become philosophical.

> (Generally: I've always been very very very doubtful about 
> arguments that start with "I can't think of..." because I've 
> historically tried them so many times, and with terrible 
> results.)

I agree, which is why I think that although such arguments are 
not unwelcome, it's much better to find out by experiment. Break 
something in Phobos and see how much of your code is affected :)