Re: Nim's strutils.split() slower than Python's string split()?

[cblake]

This comes up a lot. Here are a couple recent ones: 
[https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/4738](https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/4738) and 
[https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/5103](https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/5103).