std.xml should just go

[Walter Bright]

Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
> On 02/06/2011 05:43 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2011-02-04 21:44, Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> But, I assume, it will allocate a new instance of String even though the
>> content point to the same data?
> 
> Yes, but small objects in Java are very fast to allocate and garbage 
> collect.

It's even faster to not allocate/collect at all! That's the advantage of proper 
slices.