Major performance problem with std.array.front()

[Nick Sabalausky]

On 3/9/2014 7:47 AM, w0rp wrote:
>
> My knowledge of Unicode pretty much just comes from having
> to deal with foreign language customers and discovering the problems
> with the code unit abstraction most languages seem to use. (Java and
> Python suffer from similar issues, but they don't really have algorithms
> in the way that we do.)
>

Python 2 or 3 (out of curiosity)? If you're including Python3, then that 
somewhat surprises me as I thought greatly improved Unicode was one of 
the biggest reasons for the jump from 2 to 3. (Although it isn't 
*completely* surprising since, as we all know far too well here, fully 
correct Unicode is *not* easy.)