On 02/03/2011 10:07 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
The way to get a high performance string parser in D is to take advantage of one of D's unique features - slices. Java, C++, C#, etc., all rely on copying strings. With D you can just use slices into the original XML source text. If you're copying the text, you're doing it wrong.
Java's substring() does not copy the text, at least in the official JDK implementation. Unfortunately, it doesn't specify this behavior as part of the String API.
