Major performance problem with std.array.front()

[Walter Bright]

On 3/9/2014 9:19 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On 3/9/2014 6:31 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 3/9/2014 6:08 AM, "Marc Schütz" <schuetzm at gmx.net>" wrote:
>>> Also, `byCodeUnit` and `byCodePoint` would probably be better names
>>> than `raw`
>>> and `decode`, to much the already existing `byGrapheme` in std.uni.
>>
>> I'd vastly prefer 'byChar', 'byWchar', 'byDchar' for each of string,
>> wstring, dstring, and InputRange!char, etc.
>
> 'byCodePoint' and 'byDchar' are the same. However, 'byCodeUnit' is completely
> different from anything else:
>
> string  str;
> wstring wstr;
> dstring dstr;
>
> (str|wchar|dchar).byChar  // Always range of char
> (str|wchar|dchar).byWchar // Always range of wchar
> (str|wchar|dchar).byDchar // Always range of dchar
>
> str.representation  // Range of ubyte
> wstr.representation // Range of ushort
> dstr.representation // Range of uint
>
> str.byCodeUnit  // Range of char
> wstr.byCodeUnit // Range of wchar
> dstr.byCodeUnit // Range of dchar

I don't see much point to the latter 3.