• Andrei Alexandrescu (6/6) Feb 14 2015 I just submitted an optimization for skipOver for strings:
• "Ulrich =?UTF-8?B?S8O8dHRsZXIi?= <kuettler gmail.com> (6/10) Feb 14 2015 The range version of startsWith (which I suspect is the most

Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:

I just submitted an optimization for skipOver for strings: 
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2986.

I noticed startsWith should be similarly optimized. If anyone would want 
to work on that, it would be great.


Thanks,

Andrei

"Ulrich =?UTF-8?B?S8O8dHRsZXIi?= <kuettler gmail.com> writes:

On Saturday, 14 February 2015 at 17:52:09 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
 I just submitted an optimization for skipOver for strings: 
 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2986.

 I noticed startsWith should be similarly optimized. If anyone 
 would want to work on that, it would be great.

The range version of startsWith (which I suspect is the most 
commonly used one) is optimized beautifully. This leaves the 
(rather trivial) single element one and the "one haystack, any of 
these needles" one.