TypeFunction example: ImplictConvTargets

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On Tuesday, 6 October 2020 at 13:35:25 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Tuesday, 6 October 2020 at 13:20:43 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>> If you look at the history of std.meta you'll see it was me 
>> who recently made Filter so ugly, the previous version was 
>> simple but too slow.
>
> To get Filter/staticMap to have improved performance (and it 
> looks to me like Stefan copied the phobos version in his 
> example), you were forced to make them uglier. But, isn't 
> Stefan's point that his version has even better performance 
> than your ugly version? Is your argument that the simple 
> version would have better performance in this case?

That is a newbie thing to say. The big complication swept under 
the rug is the language. If you make the language bigger you can 
always makes things look nicer. It doesn't mean you should.
To moderators: Are you seriously rejecting my posts for 
overquoting? What happened to this community?