Creeping Bloat in Phobos

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On Monday, 29 September 2014 at 16:43:17 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On 09/28/2014 02:12 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Noice. Should be told, though, that reading the actual file 
>> will
>> dominate execution time. -- Andrei
>
> Absolutely, and we should have different priorities right now.

That is not obvious. Modern parsing techniques that deals with 
ambiguity are O(N^3) to O(N^4), add to this the desire for 
lexer-free parsers and you'll start to see that performance 
matters.