On Tuesday, 27 November 2012 at 09:15:02 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky
wrote:
I benched using varied sources of data, in particular, both
ASCII only
strings, as well as unicode heavy text.
Nothing better then a dump of Arabic wiki ? ;)
I benched with a dump of the japanese wiki actually ^^
Unicode has better gains, but raw ASCII text is *also* has
gains :/
this holds true for both UTF-8 and UTF-16.
UTF-32 is different, because foreach has the "unfair"
advantage of not
validating the code points...
I got these results on 2.061 alpha release, with phobos in
release and
both -inline and without inline.
Don't forget the -O -noboundscheck. As some things are safe and
thus always have bounds check.
I though "noboundscheck" only had an effect on code marked
"@system"...?