Challenge: write a really really small front() for UTF8

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/23/14, 2:29 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> 24-Mar-2014 01:22, Andrei Alexandrescu пишет:
>> Here's a baseline: http://goo.gl/91vIGc. Destroy!
>>
> Assertions to check encoding?!
> I thought it would detect broken encoding and do a substitution at least.

That implementation does zero effort to optimize checks themselves, and 
indeed puts them in asserts. I think there's value in having such a 
primitive down below.

Andrei