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[Walter Bright]

On 6/5/2020 1:41 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> But those decisions are all made for debatably good reasons 
> and at the end of the day, is it worth worrying about 0.04s and 200 bytes on a 
> hello world build?

writeln() is a fundamental piece of Phobos, and should be done right.

Back in the olden days, Borland's C compiler didn't produce very good code. But 
Borland managed to still get good results by doing the basics right - they went 
all out on hand-optimizing the C standard library.

In particular, they implemented printf entirely in hand-optimized assembler. 
Since printf is used everywhere in C code, this paid of handsomely for Borland. 
AFAIK, they're the only C vendor that did this.