Adding a read primitive to ranges

[Alex Parrill via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 4 May 2015 at 19:23:08 UTC, Freddy wrote:
> On Monday, 4 May 2015 at 15:16:25 UTC, Alex Parrill wrote:
>
> The ploblem is that all the functions in 
> std.range,std.algorithm and many other wrappers would ignore 
> byChucks and produce much slower code.

How so? `file.byChunks(4096).joiner` is a range that acts as if 
you read each byte out of the file one at a time, but actually 
reads them in 4096-byte buffers. It's still compatible with all 
of the range and algorithm functions.