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Discussion on: Strings Are Evil

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Michiel Hendriks

TLDR version:
Don’t use string manipulations to handle a proper parser’s workload.

Writing parsers that work on byte/char streams will always outperform other solutions. It takes more time up front, but less in the total run.

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xtofl

What parser libraries would you use?