faster splitter

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 27 May 2016 at 21:31:48 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
>
> Just about the only reason I could think of for this to happen 
> is if the compiler fails to inline the range primitives from 
> std.array. Otherwise, the loops should be pretty much 
> equivalent to LLVM's optimiser.
>
> This is so fundamental to D's strategic promise that we can't 
> afford to get it wrong.
>
>  — David

I agree, and it has been said on this forum that tight manual 
loops are faster than the range paradigm (I think bearophile was 
one of them, if I remember correctly). Maybe we should benchmark 
this too, just in case.