Creeping Bloat in Phobos

[Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d]

On 09/28/2014 02:23 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> front() should follow a simple pattern that's been very successful in
> HHVM: small inline function that covers most cases with "if (c < 0x80)"
> followed by an out-of-line function on the multicharacter case. That
> approach would make the cost of auto-decoding negligible in the
> overwhelming majority of cases.
>
> Andrei

Well, we're using the same trick for already 3 years now :).
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/299