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

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 4/21/18 4:31 PM, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> On Saturday, 21 April 2018 at 16:08:13 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> Since when?
>>
> Since Andrei came up with the RCStr concept. Even a non-RC String type 
> would still solve our auto decoding problem while also allowing us to do 
> SSO.

Rereading your post, I misunderstood. I thought you implied that we 
would be getting rid of slicing from strings, but that's not what you meant.

I'm all for a string type and auto-decoding, so we can get rid of 
auto-decoding for char arrays.

-Steve