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[Stefan Koch]

On Wednesday, 3 June 2020 at 14:04:23 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Wednesday, 3 June 2020 at 03:19:37 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> [...]
>
> iff it is a string literal and only a string literal. tho the 
> zero-terminator can be fixed with fwrite of course.
>
>> [...]
>
> It actually tries to special-case string literals (and it does 
> a fine job - the compile time on my computer is scarcely 
> different than using `core.stdc.stdio`), but turns out this is 
> trickier than it might seem since there's a lot of edge cases 
> in real generic D code.
>
> On Linux, this generic implementation costs about 0.04s in 
> compile time. On Windows, it costs about 0.08s (which is 
> probably more the cost of importing core.sys.windows.windows 
> than anything else).
>
> tbh I think this case looks worse than it is.

Try to print an enum please.