• =?UTF-8?B?Tm9yZGzDtnc=?= (3/3) Aug 08 2017 Has anybody written a wrapper around `std.file.readText` (or
• Marco Leise (10/13) Aug 09 2017 What do you mean by similar? There are many ways to load a file

=?UTF-8?B?Tm9yZGzDtnc=?= <per.nordlow gmail.com> writes:

Has anybody written a wrapper around `std.file.readText` (or 
similar) that appends a final zero-byte terminator in order to 
realize sentinel-based search in textual parsers.

Marco Leise <Marco.Leise gmx.de> writes:

Am Tue, 08 Aug 2017 20:48:39 +0000
schrieb Nordl=C3=B6w <per.nordlow gmail.com>:

 Has anybody written a wrapper around `std.file.readText` (or=20
 similar) that appends a final zero-byte terminator in order to=20
 realize sentinel-based search in textual parsers.

What do you mean by similar? There are many ways to load a file
into memory before appending \0. In fast.json I used a memory
mapped file. On some OSs you can read past the end of such
mappings safely to generate extra \0 bytes. 16 zero-bytes is a
good amount if you want to use the SSE4.2 string instruction.

https://github.com/mleise/fast/blob/master/source/fast/json.d#L1464

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Marco