Allocating a wstring on the stack (no GC)?

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/7/2014 11:26 AM, Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert wrote:
> I have a very specific use case (JIT compiler) in which I have a pre-allocated
> array of wchar string data stored somewhere in memory. I'd like to be able to
> create a temporary D wstring object to pass this as a "regular" string to other
> functions. For performance reasons, it would be preferable not to dynamically
> allocate or copy any data. Dynamically allocating the strings tends to trigger
> the D GC which severely impacts the performance.
>
> So, my question is, would it be possible for me to allocate a wstring object on
> the stack, and manually set its string data pointer and length? If so, how? Your
> wizardly help is much appreciated.

Checkout std.internal.scopebuffer (new for 2.066)