Why is `scope` planned for deprecation?

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 11/16/2014 2:22 PM, "Ola Fosheim Grøstad" 
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>" wrote:
> On Sunday, 16 November 2014 at 22:18:51 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 22:09:00 +0000
>> via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sunday, 16 November 2014 at 22:00:10 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> > that's why warp is faster than cpp? ;-)
>>> Which implementation of cpp?
>> gcc implementation, afair. it's slowness was the reason for warping.
>
> Ok, I haven't seen an independent benchmark, but I believe clang is faster. But…
>
> https://github.com/facebook/warp/blob/master/lexer.d#L173

Notice the total lack of strlen()'s in Warp.


> Nah, if you know that the file ends with zero then you can build an efficient
> finite automata as a classifier.

deadalnix busted that myth a while back with benchmarks.