Well sure, fast enough. But this is exactly why need faster machines.. Add some cpu, add some cache. It's a 100% increase. If you're doing a lot of string pars

Well sure, fast enough. But this is exactly why need faster machines.. Add some cpu, add some cache. It's a 100% increase. If you're doing a lot of string parsing, it will add up. Probably not very noticeable, and maybe you'll have extra cachemisses in a critical path. If the function shouldn't be used, why create it at all, or why not show compiler errors / runtime error