Post about comparing C, C++ and D performance with a real world project

[Ali Çehreli]

On 12/07/2017 03:07 PM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On 7 December 2017 at 23:39, Daniel Kozak <kozzi11 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The other slowdown is caused by concatenation. Because std::string += is
>> more simillar to std.array.(Ref)Appender
>>
> 
> Correct.  The semantics of ~= mean that the memory is copied around to
> a new allocation every time (unless the array is marked
> assumeSafeAppend).
> 

You must have meant ~, not ~= because luckily, it is assumeSafeAppend 
when there is just one slice. ~= is not that bad in that case:

import std.stdio;

void main() {
     int[] a;
     foreach (i; 0 .. 10) {
         a ~= i;
         writeln(a.ptr);
     }
}

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Ali