Fastest Way of Accessing Entries in an AA

["Nordlöw" via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 8 January 2015 at 15:49:46 UTC, Dragos Carp wrote:
> On Thursday, 8 January 2015 at 15:45:27 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
>> Is
>>
>>    key in aa ? aa[key] : ValueType.init;
>>
>> the most efficient way to maybe return a value from an 
>> associative array aa?
>
> aa.get(key, ValueType.init)

That was too easy ;)

It would be nice if the compiler could detect usage of aa.get() 
automatically and issue either a diagnostics or transform it in 
an optimization pass.