Re: [swift-evolution] Zero-copy String buffer access

2017-11-13 Thread Michael Ilseman via swift-evolution
> On Nov 3, 2017, at 10:39 AM, Cory Benfield via swift-evolution > wrote: > > One of Swift’s major advantages as a language is the ease of bridging from > Swift code to C. This ease makes it possible to utilise the vast body of > existing code to bootstrap projects, rather than reinventing t

[swift-evolution] Zero-copy String buffer access

2017-11-03 Thread Cory Benfield via swift-evolution
One of Swift’s major advantages as a language is the ease of bridging from Swift code to C. This ease makes it possible to utilise the vast body of existing code to bootstrap projects, rather than reinventing the world in Swift every time we have a problem. The String type in Swift has some af