Walter, can you elaborate on this, are D's slices functionally equivalent to C++'s string_view? I.e. no copying as long no 'ASCIIZ-dependent' code is involved?
D strings are a simply a pointer/length pair. Substrings can be extracted with no alloc/copying necessary. The length can be determined without loading the string into the cache and scanning it.
Those two features make for big speed improvements.
