Why ranges don't return vectors?

[deadalnix]

On Friday, 1 March 2013 at 22:18:10 UTC, Chris Cain wrote:
> Okay, sure, performance. But if you want to code for 
> performance, there's nothing stopping you now. The idea about 
> ranges is to unify lots of concepts. If you need lower level 
> work and require every bit of performance, but still want to 
> use ranges, then you can, but it should be a specialized range 
> type that you do it on which meets your precise specification.
>

And still, some time you'd be surprised by what the compiler can 
do for you. Cf the discussion about SentinelRange.