Proposal for SentinelInputRange
deadalnix
deadalnix at gmail.com
Thu Feb 28 18:00:24 PST 2013
On Friday, 1 March 2013 at 01:46:34 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 2/28/2013 5:29 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 2/28/13 7:34 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 2/28/2013 4:07 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>>> I just don't see how you're going to get a
>>>> performance gain from much of anything other than strings.
>>>
>>> I gave you other examples already. We're just going around in
>>> circles.
>>
>> We're talking about an abstraction that doesn't exist,
>> exemplifying with code
>> that doesn't use it. No wonder there's going to be
>> miscommunication. The
>> solution is to spin some code.
>
> std.regexp uses sentinels in the bytecode.
I think nobody says that this technic is useless. Simply that a
good compiler can take advantage of it without introducing an
higher level concept of sentinel input range.
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