Making byLine faster: we should be able to delegate this

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On Sunday, 22 March 2015 at 07:03:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> I confess I am a bit disappointed with the leadership being 
> unable to delegate this task to a trusty lieutenant in the 
> community. There's been a bug opened on this for a long time, 
> it gets regularly discussed here (with the wrong conclusions 
> ("we must redo D's I/O because FILE* is killing it!") about 
> performance bottlenecks drawn from unverified assumptions), and 
> the techniques used to get a marked improvement in the diff 
> above are trivial fare for any software engineer. The following 
> factors each had a significant impact on speed:

Lack of developer itch in a comparatively small developer base 
making the complement of no one dealing with it too small. :c

Cheers for taking the time, though! All the love for devs.