Re: Nim vs. Python & Groovy (string splitting): Why is string splitting so slow in Nim?

[Araq]

  1. I suspect what's really slow here is Nim's IO or unzipping and this should 
definitely be looked into and fixed.
  2. Well, yes, strutils is for quick & dirty hacking, not for "quick 
runtimes". And optimizing splits is easier said than done, effectively you need 
2 different versions so that split continues to work at compile-time. And then 
it still adds maintainance costs. Plus in the end all you do is to make 
somebody's bugs run faster.