What's the go with the GC these days?

[Walter Bright]

On 1/5/2019 11:03 PM, Neia Neutuladh wrote:
> Interestingly, Java used to use slicing for substrings. This was changed
> (circa java 7, IIRC). The logic was that you might read in a large string
> and preserve a short substring of it for a long time, and that costs you a
> lot of extra memory.

That's why DMD doesn't use slicing of the source file buffer for strings and 
identifiers. There's also a caching issue with it, as the slices will be spread 
out in memory rather than concentrated.