Major performance problem with std.array.front()

[Dicebot]

On Monday, 10 March 2014 at 14:05:39 UTC, dennis luehring wrote:
> Am 07.03.2014 03:37, schrieb Walter Bright:
>> In "Lots of low hanging fruit in Phobos" the issue came up 
>> about the automatic
>> encoding and decoding of char ranges.
>
> after reading many of the attached posts the question is - what
> could be Ds future design of introducing breaking changes, its
> not a solution to say its not possible because of too many 
> breaking changes - that will become more and more a problem of 
> Ds evolution
> - much like C++

Historically 2 approaches has been practiced:

1) argue a lot and then do nothing
2) suddenly change something and tell users is was necessary

I also think that this is much more important issue than this 
whole thread but it does not seem to attract any real attention 
when mentioned.