tolf and detab

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 08/08/2010 10:29 PM, bearophile wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu:
>> I think at the end of the day, regardless the relative
>> possibilities of file reading in the two languages, we should be
>> faster than Python when allocating one new string per line.
>
> For now I suggest you to aim to be just about as fast as Python in
> this task :-) Beating Python significantly on this task is probably
> not easy.

Why?

Andrei