On Sunday, 22 March 2015 at 07:03:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
I confess I am a bit disappointed with the leadership being
unable to delegate this task to a trusty lieutenant in the
community. There's been a bug opened on this for a long time,
it gets regularly discussed here (with the wrong conclusions
("we must redo D's I/O because FILE* is killing it!") about
performance bottlenecks drawn from unverified assumptions), and
the techniques used to get a marked improvement in the diff
above are trivial fare for any software engineer. The following
factors each had a significant impact on speed:
Lack of developer itch in a comparatively small developer base
making the complement of no one dealing with it too small. :c
Cheers for taking the time, though! All the love for devs.
