Major performance problem with std.array.front()

[Kagamin]

On Friday, 7 March 2014 at 13:40:31 UTC, Michel Fortin wrote:
> if you want to parse XML then you'll need to work with code 
> points (in theory, in practice you might still want direct 
> access to code units for performance reasons)

AFAIK, xml control characters are all ascii, and what's between 
them you can slice or dup without consideration, so code units 
should be more than enough.