Request for comments: std.d.lexer

[Walter Bright]

On 1/28/2013 1:05 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> If think slicing the buffer will force the whole buffer to remain in memory and
> not be collected by the GC. If one keeps the whole buffer in memory anyway this
> won't be a problem.

Well, the source buffer can be large, and will span a lot of memory cache lines, 
making accessing those slices slow.