On Monday, 22 June 2020 at 03:43:58 UTC, Denis wrote:
My code reads a UTF-8 encoded file into a buffer and validates, byte by byte, the UTF-8 encoding along with some additional validation. If I simply return the UTF-8 encoded string, there won't be another decoding/encoding done -- correct?
Yeah D doesn't do extra work when you are just passing stuff around, only when you specifically ask for it by calling a function or maybe doing foreach (depends on if you ask for char or dchar in the foreach type)
