On Monday, 14 December 2020 at 23:55:09 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: > Yes, you can use .ptr to avoid bounds checks, and it's safe if > you do it correctly. Though doing it correctly may be harder than you'd think: https://gist.github.com/pbackus/39b13e8a2c6aea0e090e4b1fe8046df5#example-short-string