Major performance problem with std.array.front()

[Nick Sabalausky]

On 3/10/2014 6:21 AM, ponce wrote:
> On Sunday, 9 March 2014 at 21:14:30 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>
>> Yea, I've had problems before - completely unnecessary problems that
>> were *not* helpful or indicative of latent bugs - which were a direct
>> result of Phobos being overly pedantic and eager about UTF validation.
>> And yet the implicit UTF validation has never actually *helped* me in
>> any way.
>
>
>>> self-imposed limitation
> For greater good.
>
> I finds this article very telling about why string should be converted
> to UTF-8 as often as possible.
> http://www.utf8everywhere.org/
>
> I agree 100% with its content, it's impossibly hard to have a sane
> handling of encodings on WIndows (even more in a team), if not following
> the drastic rules the article exposes.
>

I may have missed it, but I don't see where it says anything about 
validation or immediate sanitation of invalid sequences. It's mostly 
"UTF-16 sucks and so does Windows" (not that I'm necessarily disagreeing 
with it). (ot: Kinda wish they hadn't used such a hard to read font...)