It have long bugged me that Phobos std.algorithm.find is slow. Far
slower then strstr (esp on *nix where it competes against GLIBC[1]).
The current state of the art in searching substring
with O(1) space requirement is Two-Way algorithm:
http://www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~lecroq/string/node26.html
which is linear in time.
I could imagine it would be interesting to implement a generic version
as well. Any takers? I'd gladly go for it myself but unfortunately way
too busy on other fronts (I planed to do it for a couple of months already).
[1] See a relevant bug report and discussion e.g on glibc
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5514
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Dmitry Olshansky
