On Friday, 1 March 2013 at 03:44:30 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
You can make a buffered range that reads in a large chunk of
data at a
time, and .front and .popFront merely move an internal pointer
until it
reaches the end of the buffer, then the next buffer page is
loaded in.
In this case, .front is very simple (just a pointer lookup) and
will
probably be inlined by an optimizing compiler.
Just because the abstraction is reading per-element, doesn't
mean the
implementation has to literally do that!
T
Isn't this essentially what is going on in stdio when a range
uses fread?
