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I wonder what makes it so slow then. I'm looking forward to the day when we can look at the source code :)

• mikeash 11y ago
  Where are you getting that it's slow?
  • fauigerzigerk 11y ago
    In my own little ad-hoc micro benchmark it is. That's why I suspected that there was copying going on, but there could be so many other reasons for it that it was probably a pointless exercise in the first place. [Edit] And I mean relatively slow (4x the C++ code), not absysmally slow. Not a big deal.
    • mikeash 11y ago
      Gotcha. Do you have optimizations on? If so, I'd guess it's just the overhead of the extra indirection, plus dropFirst does have to examine that first little bit of data to determine the grapheme cluster boundaries.
      • fauigerzigerk 11y ago
        Yes I've done a release build.