Success! Find is slow no more

[Brian Schott]

On Wednesday, 22 May 2019 at 23:24:47 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> But if your code shows improvement with ldc/gdc, *then* we have 
> something interesting to talk about.

Cloning the repository and running "make ldc" on my machine gives 
the following:

Search in Alice in Wonderland
        std: 178 ±13
     manual: 124 ±10
   A2Phobos: 100 ±0
      Chris: 121 ±10
     Andrei: 172 ±11
    Andrei2: 116 ±8
     Faster: 143 ±10
Search in random short strings
        std: 216 ±49
     manual: 178 ±43
   A2Phobos: 106 ±8
      Chris: 195 ±66
     Andrei: 121 ±18
    Andrei2: 124 ±23
     Faster: 125 ±18
Mismatch in random long strings
        std: 242 ±87
     manual: 229 ±100
   A2Phobos: 104 ±7
      Chris: 226 ±96
     Andrei: 227 ±101
    Andrei2: 133 ±29
     Faster: 153 ±25
Search random haystack with random needle
        std: 244 ±79
     manual: 194 ±64
   A2Phobos: 105 ±9
      Chris: 198 ±69
     Andrei: 177 ±39
    Andrei2: 144 ±40
     Faster: 160 ±27
  (avg slowdown vs fastest; absolute deviation)
CPU ID: GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz