The Case Against Autodecode

[Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 15 May 2016 at 23:10:38 UTC, Jon D wrote:
> Given the importance of performance in the auto-decoding topic, 
> it seems reasonable to quantify it. I took a stab at this. It 
> would of course be prudent to have others conduct similar 
> analysis rather than rely on my numbers alone.

Here is another benchmark (see the above comment for the code to 
apply the patch to) that measures the iteration time difference: 
http://forum.dlang.org/post/ndj6dm$a6c$1@digitalmars.com

The result is a 756% slow down