std.xml should just go

[Max Samukha]

On 02/04/2011 05:07 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> I only brought up Tango in the first place to point out that it is a
>> goal of the new std.xml to at least come close to Tango's performance
>> in parsing XML, because Tango's XML parser is very fast.
>
> The way to get a high performance string parser in D is to take
> advantage of one of D's unique features - slices. Java, C++, C#, etc.,
> all rely on copying strings. With D you can just use slices into the
> original XML source text. If you're copying the text, you're doing it
> wrong.

.NET and Qt do have slices of some kind:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1hsbd92d.aspx
http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/qstringref.html#details

I am not sure whether their XML libraries use those.