OT - Replacing strings with slices in C# - high performance improvement

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 4/20/18 8:27 PM, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> On Friday, 20 April 2018 at 16:33:44 UTC, rumbu wrote:
>> .NET Core 2.1 was announced, with emphasis on using Span<T> instead of 
>> classic String class all around the framework. For people not familiar 
>> with C#, Span<T> is similar to a D array slice.
>>
>> https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/04/18/performance-improvements-in-net-core-2-1/ 
>>
> 
> And we’re trying to move towards a string library type and away from raw 
> slices :)

Since when?

-Steve