https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11531
--- Comment #1 from Jack Stouffer <j...@jackstouffer.com> --- Created attachment 1635 --> https://issues.dlang.org/attachment.cgi?id=1635&action=edit test.d Currently group does not auto-decode, and I have attached a test case which shows that using immutable(ubyte)[] rather than string has a huge performance pessimization being almost 2x slower. --