Am Thu, 23 May 2013 20:21:47 -0400 schrieb "Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisp...@gmx.com>:
> At some point, we're probably going to need to > benchmark stuff more agressively and optimize Phobos in general more, because > it's the standard library. And eliminating unnecessary memory allocations > definitely goes along with that. > > - Jonathan M Davis On a related note, a while back I benchmarked the naive Phobos approach to create a Windows API (wchar) string from a D string with using alloca to convert the string on a piece of stack memory like this: http://dpaste.1azy.net/b60d37d4 IIRC it was 13(!) times faster for ~100 chars of English text and 5 times for some multi-byte characters. I think this approach is too hackish for Phobos, but it demonstrates that there is much room. -- Marco
