"Ben Hinkle" <ben.hinkle@gmail.com> wrote:

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> That would make existing C code break, too, so I doubt it will be a problem.

I will have a closer look to C-code ported to 64-bit OS. But the fact that C-code may break is no reason for letting D-code break also.

-manfred

"Derek Parnell" <derek@psych.ward> wrote in message news:s7w75fouxa82$.1x9tu12mubkvu.dlg@40tude.net...
> I've just tried some time trials myself and I have to say that phobos is faster in all cases, even when I have to do conversions of wchar[] and dchar[]. I also tried to remove the AA dependancies but the best I could
do
> was to come in a half phobos's speed.

It's just really hard to beat memchr() (which find() is based on).