std.xml should just go

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:44:46 -0500, Jeff Nowakowski <jeff at dilacero.org>  
wrote:

> On 02/03/2011 10:07 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> Java's substring() does not copy the text, at least in the official JDK  
> implementation. Unfortunately, it doesn't specify this behavior as part  
> of the String API.

Yes, but Java's strings are immutable.  Typically a buffered I/O stream  
has a mutable buffer used to read data.  This necessitates a copy.  At the  
very least, you need to continue allocating more memory to hold all the  
strings.

-Steve