faster splitter

[Seb via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 23 May 2016 at 12:01:52 UTC, qznc wrote:
> On Monday, 23 May 2016 at 11:52:35 UTC, Seb wrote:
>> On Sunday, 22 May 2016 at 18:56:30 UTC, qznc wrote:
>>> On Monday, 4 March 2013 at 19:11:17 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
>>> wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>>
>>> Below is an implementation, which matches MySplitter with 
>>> dmd, but not with ldc. More precisely:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> have you thought about opening a PR to improve `splitter`?
>
> Yes, but I'm not sure about the goals.
>
> I also want to dig a little deeper. Being "sometimes faster" 
> without some understand why and when feels unsatisfying.

Good luck. If you need help, it's probably the best to open the 
PR as people can directly see your code and the Phobos repo is 
usually pretty active.

> Additionally, there is this weird special case for a 
> bidirectional range, which just adds unnecessary overhead.

> Is  "remove dead code" a good enough reason in itself for a PR?

Absolutely ;-)