Major performance problem with std.array.front()

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Sunday, 9 March 2014 at 08:32:09 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote:
> On topic, I think D's implicit default decode to dchar is 
> *infinity* times better than C++'s char-based strings. While 
> imperfect in terms of grapheme, it was still a design decision 
> made of win.

Care to argument?

> I'd be tempted to not ask "how do we back out", but rather, 
> "how can we take this further"? I'd love to ditch the whole 
> "char"/"dchar" thing altogether, and work with graphemes. But 
> that would be massive involvement.

As has been discussed, this does not make sense. Graphemes are 
also a concept which apply only to certain writing systems, all 
it would do is exchange one set of tradeoffs with another, 
without solving anything. Text isn't that simple.