A safer File.readln

[Markus Laker via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 23 January 2017 at 11:30:35 UTC, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> It is possible to tweak the numbers based on the overall use. 
> For example, add 100% for arrays smaller than 1MB, 50% for 1MB 
> - 100MB, and 20% for arrays above 100MB big. This would 
> eliminate the performance degradation for almost all users.

I'm going to bow out of the discussion about array-expansion, 
because I think it's a separate topic from readln and I don't 
know enough about D's internals to contribute meaningfully.  It 
might be worth raising your proposal in a separate thread in 
order to ensure visibility.

Cheers,

Markus