Re: Void pointers

[Alex via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 06:55:35 UTC, Alex wrote:

import std.conv : to;
import std.datetime;
size_t aM = 5; size_t bM = 80;
void f1() {auto io = iota(aM,bM);}
void f2() {auto sl = testFunc(arr, aM ,bM);}
auto r = benchmark!(f1, f2)(100_000);
auto f0Result = to!Duration(r[0]); // time f1 took to run 
10,000 times
auto f1Result = to!Duration(r[1]); // time f2 took to run 
10,000 times
writeln("f1: ", f0Result);
writeln("f2: ", f1Result);

with dmd test44.d -release
the results are:
f1: 692 μs and 7 hnsecs
f2: 379 μs and 1 hnsec

testFunc is the getSlice method... sorry... and the functions are 
run 100000 times