Major performance problem with std.array.front()

[Nick Sabalausky]

On 3/9/2014 1:26 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 3/9/14, 6:34 AM, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
>
>> `byCodeUnit` is essentially std.string.representation.
>
> Actually not because for reasons that are unclear to me people really
> want the individual type to be char, not ubyte.
>

Probably because char *is* D's type for UTF-8 code units.