tolf and detab

[bearophile]

Andrei Alexandrescu:

> > 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?

Because it's a core functionality for Python so devs probably have optimized it well, it's written in C, and in this case there is very little interpreter overhead.

Bye,
bearophile