The Case Against Autodecode

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/30/2016 12:52 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> If I ever had to write string-heavy code, I'd probably fork Phobos just
> so I can get decent performance. Just sayin'.

When I wrote Warp, the only point of which was speed, I couldn't use phobos 
because of autodecoding. I have since recoded a number of phobos functions so 
they didn't autodecode, so the situation is better.