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[safety0ff via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 19 July 2014 at 21:12:44 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>
> 3. slices become mostly unworkable, and slices are a fantastic 
> way to speed up a program

They are even more fantastic for speeding up programming.
I think that programmer time isn't included often enough in 
discussions.

I have a program which I used D to quickly prototype and form my 
baseline implementation.
After getting a semi-refined implementation I converted the 
performance critical part to C++.
The D code that survived the rewrite uses slices + ranges, and 
it's not worth converting that to C++ code (it would be less 
elegant and isn't worth the time.)

The bottom line is that without D's slices, I might not have 
bothered bringing that small project to the level of completion 
it has today.